
Episode #1
Learning to drive in the Ford Escort Mk1 1300 XL (1973-1974)
<p>We pull on the driving gloves and fire up the engine of the first car in our time-capsule garage: a 1972 Ford Escort Mk1 1300 XL.</p><br><p>The bronze four-door family car was the first Bill ever drove and belonged to his trusty driving instructor, Bob. Emblazoned with L plates, it would have been a familiar sight pootling gingerly around the residential backstreets and trading estates of Gateshead in 1973 and 1974.</p><br><p>But what would Bill have been listening to on the car radio – if that had been allowed during a driving lesson? And what are his defining me...


