Move Along, Please Audiobook (Free)

At 10.41am on a Tuesday morning in September, Tag Mason boards the number 1A bus at Land’s End in Cornwall. Forty-six buses and eleven times later he disembarks at John O’Groats in Scotland. Move Along Please is his accounts of this gruelling 1100-mile odyssey; a paint-by-bus-numbers family portrait of Britain.

On the way he visits everywhere through the village where the internet enters Britain towards the metropolitan sprawl of Birmingham (inspiration for both Towers in Lord of the Bands). He examples about Move Along, Make sure you staples of the British diet from curry to the deep-fried Mars Club, and uncovers countless exciting facts about his native land – did you know, for example, that Crewe Alexandra soccer team is named following the wife of Edward VII, that Loch Ness could contain the water from all the lakes in England and Wales, or that there is a community which rejoices in the name Tongue End?

Set against the setting of 2000 many years of background and with a complete supporting cast attracted from that most unusual of varieties, the Great English Public, this is the unmissable tale of a guy rediscovering his nation in every its idiosyncratic glory.