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India on Four Wheels

India on Four Wheels poster
Genre
documentary television program
Country
United Kingdom
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How it feels

Two presenters travel across India to see how the rise of car ownership is changing the country. One takes a new SUV while the other uses an older car to explore places where cars are still a new or rare sight.

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What happens

India on Four Wheels is a documentary shown in the UK on BBC Two where Justin Rowlatt and Anita Rani travel around India sampling the changes and problems that growing car usage has brought to the country in the last two decades. The show was first broadcast on Friday 19 August and Friday 26 August 2011 as a two-part series. The programme was shown at 9pm and on BBC Two and BBC HD. The presenters, Justin Rowlatt and Anita Rani travelled on two different journeys. Rani travelled in a modern, small 4x4 representing India's car economy of today, whereas Rowlatt travelled in an older Indian car visiting many places where people didn't have a car, or where they were only just discovering them. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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