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.