The Adventure Begins
The weekend of our Adventures on the M8 could best be described as Why on earth would ±«Óãtv Radio Scotland be devoting a week of programming to such an unpopular road? The Sunday Express, on the other hand, went to the other extreme by suggesting that this was a motorway that we should learn to love. That was my fault. I was being interviewed by their reporter and I got carried away when he started drawing parallels between the M8 and America's famous Route 66.
Reaction from listeners has also been interesting. John Thomson - a former colleague who now teaches journalism and writes a - told me how much he had enjoyed the weekend edition of Out of Doors because he felt he could walk outside and see what what the presenters were talking about.
Today I've been listening MacAulay & Co reporter Richard Cadey as he begins his walk across the Central Belt and comedian Susan Morrison took the slip road to Whitburn for her programme The Woman In the Middle of the Motorway. On the Book Cafe we've heard central belt commuters talk about the books they read on the train journey between Edinburgh and Glasgow and there's more to come with a special road-trip edition of Get It On tonight.
Oh and please have a look at the special Adventures on the M8 website which contains lots of archive material, facts and figures and specially produced videos including a behind-the-scenes interview with ±«Óãtv Radio Scotland's travel presenter Debbie Oates.
Two and a half million people live within striking distance of the M8 and a great many of them live in the towns and villages outside or between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Millions of people, hundreds of places, and thousands of stories.
That's what this adventure is all about.
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