Roadrunner: Radio On, Road Movies and the A4

Roadrunner is a book about a film about a road. The film in question, Radio On, was made in 1979, the year Margaret Thatcher came to power in the UK, and from its initial marginal status (“a genre of one, a cul-de-sac in British film history”) it has become an oft-cited cult movie, due in no small part to its celebrated soundtrack (Bowie, Kraftwerk, Ian Dury, Devo etc) and its echoes of J.G Ballard and New German Cinema. Much of Radio On takes places on the road, and the road in this case i...