GT40
It was quite a con. I'd managed to convince the producers of 'old' Top Gear that we should film a feature about fast Fords through the ages.
The suits nodded sagely as their new-boy presenter outlined his treatment. We would have a look at cars such as the Cortina 1600E and the Escort RS2000, which would bring a sense of teary nostalgia to the piece, and then we'd look at the new Fiesta turbo for the 'yoof ' audience. 'Everyone likes a fast Ford,' I argued, and they agreed, giving me the green light to set it up...
Blackbird
In the mid sixties an RAF fighter pilot was cruising down the east coast of England in his Lightning when he saw something unusual.
'It looked exactly like one of those sci-fi Airfix kits that I'd had as a boy in the fifties,' he told me, years later.
Aircraft Carrier
It's a ship, first and foremost. But it's also a nuclear power station. And it's an airport. And it's an instrument of war.
And above all this, it's a city with shops, cinemas, hairdressers, banks, hospitals, its own television station, its own daily newspaper and 5,000 inhabitants.