The Box is a major cultural and heritage attraction and archive, which opened in Plymouth’s city centre in September 2020. Its collection, formally the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), is the regional film archive for the South West of England, comprising the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and Television South West (TSW). It also includes a significant number of donated film collections dating back to the early 1890s.
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Tudor Driving Test
Betty Tudor is about to taker her ninth driving test in twenty-two years.
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Overview
Mrs Betty Tudor is in a Peugeot Talbot car and has been trying to pass her driving test in Exeter for 22 years. After 273 lessons, 9 different driving instructors, and 8 failed driving tests as well as being banned from one motoring school, Betty has found a car manufacturer’s sponsorship under a new sure pass scheme. Mike Whitmarsh reports and interviews Colin, her current driving instructor and Betty who is hoping to use to the challenge.
So if perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did, then this is the proof, if that is, nerves don’t get in the way. It’s probably best not to mention Betty’s late night job at the pub here, however there is a wider issue and one much dispelled of lately, an irrational thought that women cannot drive, now whoever came up with that idea?
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