No part of England looks so un-English as the fens of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. Dead flat, often below sea level, drained by unerringly straight canals that rise above the black earth, they present epic landscapes, skyscrapers and waterscapes which are closer to the sublime that the picturesque. What does this environment do to the people who live and work there in what seems like a rectilinear factory without a roof? Why should this thrillingly grim place be the English Mecca of lowbrow American pursuits such as stock car racing and line dancing? (30 min Further Abroad 1997)