Synopsis
Amusing story of four would-be cabbies who must acquire 'The Knowledge'... an understanding of the streets of London... before getting their taxi licenses.
From the Back Cover
There are over 13,000 taxi-drivers in London. And in order to become taxi-drivers, every single one of them (like every one of their predecessors for over 140 years) has to pass an exam called "The Knowledge of London". The Knowledge is the story of four men and their attempts to become cab-drivers. In the process, they acquire a different kind of knowledge: knowledge of themselves and of those closest to them, of their strengths and weaknesses, of what they want from life and how knowledge itself is the means of getting it
Starring Maureen Lipman, Lesley Joseph, Nigel Hawthorne and Michael Elphick, the characters in "The Knowledge" are all fictitious but the official ordeal they undergo and the incidents that occur during the examination process are all entirely factual and true.