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World Service,15 Oct 1984,24 mins

Thomas Telford - The Colossus of Roads

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Presenter Malcolm Billings takes trip along a "canal in the sky" and past the bridges, docks and roads that earned Thomas Telford the title of "father of civil engineering."

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