The M1 motorway is 60 years old! BBC Radio 3 commissioned the composer Alex Woolf and documentary producer Laurence Grissell to create a 40 minute symphony commemorating the dramatic change the road made to the landscape and the lives of those who travel and work on it. The result is a unique tapestry of new interviews, archive recordings, ambient sounds and original music.
You can listen to the BBC Philharmonic performing the work here.
