What is "westway"

Westway was a radio soap opera broadcast twice a week on the BBC World Service from 1997 to October 2005. It focused on life in and around the fictional Westway Health Centre in west London, and was named after the main route into London from the west.

BBC7 repeated the series, with the final episode being broadcast in March 2008.

The principal actors were Gillie Meers, as Dr Margaret Sampson, head of the health centre, Nigel Carrington as Dr David Boyce, and Abi Eniola as Dr Joy Onwukwe.

Westway may refer to:

• Westway (London), a main road in London
• Westway (New York) a proposed but unbuilt highway
• Westway (1997 radio series), a BBC World Service soap opera
• Westway (TV series), a British TV series made in 1976
• Westway, Texas
• The Westway, the western extension of Lawrence Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
• Kingsview Village-The Westway, a Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood in Etobicoke

Westway is a British television series made by HTV for ITV in 1976.

The series dealt with the lives of three families living together in a commune in Bristol, and explored issues of self-sufficiency also addressed by BBC series of the period such as The Good Life and Survivors.

The cast included Simon Gipps-Kent.

The series survives complete on 1"C videotape as part of the HTV collection which is now held by ITV although formerly held by the South West Film & Television archive in Plymouth.