6 posts tagged “richard hammond”

From this month’s Children in Need fund-raiser on the BBC. The other video has been removed by the BBC from YouTube so enjoy this while it’s still there. Not as funny as the Dr Who ones in the past.
   I think this is the first time we have seen Ashes to Ashes’ 1982 hairstyles on telly. Chris looks more 1980s now but also a little strange.

As mentioned on my main blog, the BBC has shown footage of Richard Hammond’s 288 mph car crash in the delayed new series of Top Gear. I found footage from Google Video, which is posted above.

The BBC has an unusually good piece on what Richard Hammond’s brain could have been through in his car accident. Like most medical types, it ignores the power of prayer, good wishes and karma, but what do I know?

060929 Sky News—Richard Hammond

The Hamster is looking better, with Sky News reporting from Leeds’ General Infirmary, from which he was transferred today.
   It’s not so much that I have this YouTube video, but that I have it before the same pictures were broadcast on the network news here in New Zealand.

Robin Capper, who introduced me to Vox, has alerted me to a Top Gear petition, which I’d recommend fans sign:

http://www.petitiononline.com/tg100/petition.html

There are c. 50,000 signatures already and going up by the minute. In the time I took to fill it out, around 13 people signed.

I walk the talk. Here is my email to the BBC after my Top Gear post on my blog today.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I write in support of Top Gear. This show does not glamorize speed as the anti-car lobbyists claim, but is an informative, entertaining show about cars. 
   If the lobbyists are right, then speed kills—which would suggest that German autobahnen would be death traps. That is not the case.
   Even in Britain, motorways have fewer accidents given their volume than on roads with greater speed restrictions.
   I will continue to support the show and the magazine, as I have done since 1988, when it was first shown, as a special, in New Zealand. I hope the BBC will support its own, and take in the viewpoints of to the majority—not a vocal minority that is misguided, and which will use botched statistics and claims to justify its actions.

Yours sincerely,

Jack Yan