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Oct 2021
10m 1s

Car Hatred

Bbc Radio 4
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Will Self argues that the car is anything but a source of freedom.

While drivers think it gives them the ability to go anywhere, in truth 'they're shackled to a grotesque and Sisyphean go-round: they have to make the money, to pay for the car, to sit in the traffic jam, to make the money to pay for the car'.

Producer: Adele Armstrong

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