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The Great British Foreign Holiday

Mark Benton narrates a clip show looking at the Brits when they go abroad, somewhere he claims to be 'far away - outlandish, exotic and scary. Frankly, we're terrified of it.'.

Mark Benton has been abroad, he knows all about it: 'The British are an island race - abroad is really abroad, not just across the border but actually over the horizon. It's far away - outlandish, exotic and scary. Frankly, we're terrified of it.'

The Brits, foreign travel and all points in between - how we got there, what we did there and how we got back.

1 hour

Last on

Tue 2 Aug 201123:30
BBC Four

Music Played

  • London Symphony Orchestra

    Jerusalem

    composed by Sir Hubert Parry

  • Cliff Richard & The Shadows

    Summer Holiday

  • Right Said Fred

    I'm Too Sexy

  • Arrow

    Hot Hot Hot

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Albatross

  • Los del Río

    Macarena

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

  • Radiohead

    Subterranean Homesick Alien

  • Noël Coward

    Mad Dogs and Englishmen

  • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Green Onions

  • The Prodigy

    Firestarter

  • The Dandy Warhols

    Everyday Should Be A Holiday

  • Donna Summer

    I Feel Love

  • Black Lace

    Agadoo

  • Har Mar Superstar

    Back The Camel

  • Nelly

    Hot In Herre

  • The Smiths

    How Soon Is Now?

  • BJ Cole & Luke Vibert

    Fly Hawaii

Credits

NarratorMark Benton
Executive ProducerCaroline Wright
ProducerElaine Shepherd
WriterMatthew Leys
WriterMartin Trenaman

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