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Information on where you might have spotted the site mentioned or featured in the big wide world. Newer items appear at the top. I'm very bad at updating this page.
The Daily Telegraph
The interview for this article took place in September 2004, though it only went to print in early 2005. It was an interview with several members of SABRE, and included a mention of CBRD. I was very pleased to be described as "not at all geeky"!
As a group we were proud to have found the inner geek lurking inside the journalist. As well as her admission in the article that she ended up spotting "Mr Floppies" herself, she was also seen engrossed in a pre-motorway road atlas...
See the full text of the article at The Daily Telegraph.
Motoring Telegraph Article (15/01/05)
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The Independent
On a Thursday in late October 2004 I got an e-mail from a journalist asking to speak to me for an article on roads. What with the state of my inbox, I only got round to calling back the next day, when to my surprise I was told the article had already gone to print and was on the shelves. So of course I headed out to see what it was.
Lo and behold, the 29th October 2004 edition of The Independent featured a two-page spread on "how we became a nation of roadies". The article's author, Cahal Milmo, had obviously done his research without my help because there, on page 13, are a number of facts (and one image) from CBRD, along with a mention for me and the website address. Who'd have thought it?
See the full text of the article at The Independent.
Article from The Independent (29/10/04)
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'Advanced Driving' Magazine
The members' tri-annual maagzine for the Institute of Advanced Motorists ran a short article on C-roads in its Autumn 2004 issue. It drops in a link to CBRD at the bottom - though I'm not sure the editorial staff took too close a look at the site before they typed up their description of it!
IAM C-Roads Article
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BBC Radio Kent
On Thursday 30th January 2003, I was interviewed over the phone for the Sue Dougan Evening Show, which has a regular feature called Curious Questions Answered: on this particular occasion the curious questions were about UK roads. The show is produced for BBC Radio Kent, but networked across the south-east of England, on BBC Southern Counties and Solent among others. The interview was scheduled for ten minutes but over-ran to nearer twenty, delaying the travel news!
On Monday 15th September, I was invited back on the show to answer more roads questions. This time the interview was shorter and less disruptive to the programme, but did involve Sue questioning my social life too (I'm not sure she was convinced I have one!).
Radio Interview 30/01/03
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The MP3 file above was very impressively reduced from 8Mb to just over 3Mb by Toby Speight. This is sufficient evidence to convince me that Toby is some sort of technological deity, though he himself disputes this. Many thanks to him!
