History of the Future

History of the Future - Cars

Where: BBC Four
When: Thursday, 12th March at 9.30pm

The History of the Future: Cars, is a half-hour factual entertainment programme for BBC4, in which Phill Jupitus looks at how we thought the car of the future was going to turn out, and why it didn't.  

The programme focuses on the classic era of the “car of the future”, the 50s and 60s, when they hadn’t quite yet worked out how to make cars fly so they just made them look like they could.

In his quest to trace the dream car of his childhood, Phill visits the places where the future of motoring seemed to have arrived and learns about the visioneers who had let their imaginations rove in the heroic days before marketing and “sustainability” domesticated the car into the homogenous transports we see today.

The History of the Future is told on location in the Henry Ford Museum, General Motors Heritage Centre in Detroit and the Science Museum in London. Featuring interviews with Jonathan Glancey and Sir Clive Sinclair. 

All music in the show is handpicked by Phill - so it sounds good too. For a list of the tracks used in the show click here.