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@Oliver Schick
Oh dear, I've just listened to this. Apart from a fairly horrific report of injuries to a time triallist, there's an incredible amount of blind panic about cycling. It's a useful illustration for people really into cycling how it's perceived by people who don't know very much about it (including cyclists). There are also very subtle messages conveyed by Joanne Good in particular about how dangerous cycling is supposed to be--the net effect of this sort of programme is to put people off cycling. There are the usual strands: (1) Dangerous cycling, (2) lawless cycling, (3) women are disproprtionately at risk. As long as people hear about cycling like this, they are not going to perceive it as normal. The programme lacks balance and an informed voice after the cycle training report.