Audio sketch show to provide comic relief to Bank Holiday / M6 motorists
Being stuck in traffic is no laughing matter but that’s all set to change thanks to a new audio comedy sketch show.
230 Miles of Love, the world’s first ’satcom’, launches on Thursday 1st May and promises to take comedy to places it’s never been before –the M6 Motorway.
Writer and creator Andrew Shanahan has coined the term satcom which refers to a comedy broadcast via satellite navigation technology.
You can visit www.230milesoflove.com and download the sketches onto your satnav for free. When you reach certain points on the M6, a relevant sketch is transmitted to your sat nav.
As drivers cruise past Junction 20 they can hear all about the Thelwall Viaduct’s exhausted poet-in-residence. As they approach the M6 Toll road they hear For Whom The Toll Tolls, the only game show that asks whether you’re going to risk getting stuck in traffic on the original M6, or take the Toll; the sketch even ends differently depending on which way the driver goes.
230 Miles of Love features performances from professional comedians John Warburton and Louise Conran and up-and-coming stars like John Thorp, Chris Rea and Mel Moon.
As well as enlivening the journeys of thousands of people, the show aims to raise £23,000 for The Motivation Charitable Trust, which provides wheelchairs to people in developing countries.
230 Miles of Love is the first in a series of comedies in a project called Moving Audio. Shanahan said:
“The M6 is an ideal location and subject for comedy. Hundreds of thousands of people use the road every day, which gives you a ready-made audience and even better is that nearly every traveller wants to entertained. With the advances in satnav technology, it seemed like a natural progression to look at this as a new medium and explore what it could do to brighten up a long journey.”
Drivers can download the show onto their satnavs, PDAs and mobile phones or simply listen at home on their mp3 players and computers. The show couldn’t have come at a better time for drivers who find themselves bored by the monotony of the motorways.
Visit www.230milesoflove.com
Faye Sunderland
