Motortowns

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Many of Britain's car factory towns have had to face the fact that their days of producing cars are numbered. Sarfraz Mansoor tells the story of the motortowns through more than 70 years of archive and local oral history recordings. He also looks at the changing fortunes of Luton, Longbridge, Cowley, Halewood and Dagenham, where in 1929 Henry Ford sited the largest car prodcution factory in Europe. Producer: Sara Parker First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2004.