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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Four announces Cab Night: a celebration of the London cabbie
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Four presents Cab Night, featuring a specially commissioned documentary from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ flagship arts documentary strand Arena which explores the soul of the London Cabbie.
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Arena: Cab Driver forms the centrepiece of Cab Night.
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Presented by Robert Elms, the evening features key programming from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's comedy, drama and news archive.
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Cab Night will be a culmination of Arena's London Transport Trilogy on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Four which celebrates transport in London.
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The season includes another chance to see the hugely popular Arena films Underground and Little Platform, Big Stage about the iconic Routemaster bus.
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Cab Driver rounds the trilogy off and takes it into the unremarked and solitary world of the London cab driver.
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Unsurpassed in the world's taxi pecking order, London cabbies carry a photographic memory of the city's layout (following years on the notoriously gruelling Knowledge) and drive the most iconic cab in the world. Yet they are the most maligned characters on our city's streets.
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By eavesdropping on the cabman's shelter in Russell Square and exploring the stories of five extraordinary cabbies, whose experience spans 70 years, Arena: Cab Driver unearths the soul of the London cab driver.
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Among the characters Arena discovers are Roy Perkins (91) who took his first fare in 1938 and served out his wartime as a London cabbie; Len Fox (first fare: 1974) who, after 20 years on the job, found himself, against his better judgement, in a group therapy session just off the M1, recounting his hatred for the nine million Londoners he served; and Harry Harris (first fare: 1988) who, after a cashed-up, champagne-fuelled Eighties driving his cab, went travelling round the world, only to return to a major recession in London.
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Arena Series Editor is award-winning Anthony Wall.
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Arena: Cab Driver has been directed by Zimena Percival and produced by Martin Rosenbaum of Lone Star Productions for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.
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Anthony Wall says: "It's incredibly satisfying to complete the transport trilogy for Arena. We take transport for granted but, as these films reveal, it's so much more than how we get from A to B."
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Cab Night has been commissioned by Janice Hadlow for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Four.
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Arena's London Transport Trilogy, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Four,
Saturday 12, 19 and 26 July 2008 (running order to be confirmed)
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