India on Four Wheels
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India on Four Wheels was a documentary shown in the UK on BBC Two
where Justin Rowlatt
and Anita Rani
travelled around India sampling the changes and problems the growing car usage has brought to the country in the last two decades.
The show was first broadcast on Friday 19th August and Friday 26th 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.
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
where Justin Rowlatt
Justin Rowlatt
Justin Rowlatt is a BBC news reporter and presenter.-Television career:During his time on Channel 4 News, he was a passenger on the train part of the Hatfield rail crash in 2000, reporting that he "watched the carriages skid and whip around on the gravel besides the track".He moved to the BBC in...
and Anita Rani
Anita Rani
Anita Rani is an English born ethnic Indian radio and television presenter and journalist.-Early life:Rani was born and raised in Bradford in Yorkshire, to a mother of Sikh origins, and Hindu father...
travelled around India sampling the changes and problems the growing car usage has brought to the country in the last two decades.
The show was first broadcast on Friday 19th August and Friday 26th August 2011 as a two-part series. The programme was shown at 9pm and on BBC Two
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
and BBC HD
BBC HD
BBC HD is a high-definition television network provided by the BBC. The service was initially run as a trial from 15 May 2006 until becoming a full service on 1 December 2007...
.
The presenters, Justin Rowlatt
Justin Rowlatt
Justin Rowlatt is a BBC news reporter and presenter.-Television career:During his time on Channel 4 News, he was a passenger on the train part of the Hatfield rail crash in 2000, reporting that he "watched the carriages skid and whip around on the gravel besides the track".He moved to the BBC in...
and Anita Rani
Anita Rani
Anita Rani is an English born ethnic Indian radio and television presenter and journalist.-Early life:Rani was born and raised in Bradford in Yorkshire, to a mother of Sikh origins, and Hindu father...
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.