Chris petit's cult classic radio on is one of the most striking feature debuts in british cinema a haunting blend of edgy mystery story and existential road movie, crammed with eerie evocations of english landscape and weather.stunningly photographed in monochrome by wim wenders' assistant cameraman martin schäfer, radio on is driven by a startling new wave soundtrack featuring david bowie, kraftwerk, lene lovich, ian dury, wreckless eric, robert fripp and devo, and reveals an early screen performance by sting.following a young london dj david beames on the road to bristol to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, radio on offers a unique, compelling and even mythic vision of a late 1970s england, stalled between failed hopes of cultural and social change and the imminent upheavals of thatcherism.newly restored by the bfi from the original camera negativenewly recorded video essay in which director chris petit revisits key scenes in radio onnewly recorded interview with jason wood 2021interview with chris petit and producer keith griffiths 2008, 42 minsradio on remix, 1998, 24 mins a stunning digital video essay with radical disruption of the original soundtrack by wire's bruce gilbertcoping with cupid 1991, 18 mins three blondes from another planet land on earth in order to conduct research into romantic love in this short film directed by musician and author viv albertineon the road 1972 1975, 47 mins a pair of public information films including l for logic providing a flashback to driving tests in the 70s and the motorway file, directed by ferdinand fairfax jeeves and wooster, danger uxb on the dangers of motorway drivingoriginal trailerfirst pressing only illustrated booklet featuring new writing by jason wood, jane giles and viv albertine and archival essays by geoffrey nowell‐smith, john patterson, ian penman, chris petit, sukhdev sandhu, jason wood and rudy wurlitzer