Now on DVD, this is the exciting, gruelling life of drivers on the overland run to the Middle East as captured by the BBC’s World About Us series in 1977. In ‘The Easy Bit?’ we meet drivers Frank Hook, John Williams, Dave Poulton and Dick Rivers and follow their fortunes across Europe, into communist Yugoslavia and Bulgaria and on to Turkey, In ‘Difficult Bit’ we journey the chillingly dangerous roads to Ankara, over the Taurus mountains, through Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia – each offering a different challenge to the drivers and their Scania and Leyland trucks.