Three & half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway & silent lanes, candlelit cathedrals & angry men in bad pubs. The Britain of 1936 was a land of beef paste sandwiches & drill halls. Now we are nation of vaping & nail salons, pulled pork & salted caramel. In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns & industries. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie, walks from north to south retracing the route of the emblematic Jarrow Crusade. Travelling down the country’s spine, Maconie moves through a land that is, in some ways, very much the same as the England of the 30s with its political turbulence, austerity, north/south divide, food banks & of course, football mania. Yet in other ways, it is completely unrecognisable. Maconie visits the great cities as well as the sleepy hamlets, quiet lanes & roaring motorways. He meets those with stories to tell & whose voices build a funny, complex & entertaining tale of Britain, then & now.