After months of preparation and weeks of on-air hyperbole BBC North East and Cumbria's Metro the Musical has finally been unveiled.
The nine-and-a-half minute video is a montage of Tyne & Wear Metro workers and passengers, mostly of dubious singing skills, charting the history of the distinctive cadmium yellow trains since their 1980 introduction.
Further exemplifying the BBC's political impartiality the song quickly highlights the dark days of unemployment, failing industry and Cold War uncertainty that shadowed the new decade.
Just then a ray of hope shines through as Metro, with its bright colours and geometric precision, emerges like a phoenix from the ashes of destitution.
In addition to its primary purpose of delivering people from A to B to musical shows some of the stories behind Metro - the relationships and conflicts that arise using the system. It also shows a lot of dancing and jolity, which is something you rarely see in reality.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I quite like it, but with six months in the making I dread to think how much it cost.
The nine-and-a-half minute video is a montage of Tyne & Wear Metro workers and passengers, mostly of dubious singing skills, charting the history of the distinctive cadmium yellow trains since their 1980 introduction.
Further exemplifying the BBC's political impartiality the song quickly highlights the dark days of unemployment, failing industry and Cold War uncertainty that shadowed the new decade.
Just then a ray of hope shines through as Metro, with its bright colours and geometric precision, emerges like a phoenix from the ashes of destitution.
In addition to its primary purpose of delivering people from A to B to musical shows some of the stories behind Metro - the relationships and conflicts that arise using the system. It also shows a lot of dancing and jolity, which is something you rarely see in reality.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I quite like it, but with six months in the making I dread to think how much it cost.
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