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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 23, 2016 15:44:59 GMT
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Post by Vienna on Jan 23, 2016 23:39:57 GMT
I see the perennial chesnut about his Dad being a vicar has just been copied from the original incorrect article by these people, the original mistaken article was about six years ago. His Dad worked as a manager/engineer at steel plants in the Rotherham area. |
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 24, 2016 13:36:02 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 24, 2016 16:47:54 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 24, 2016 19:39:28 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 29, 2016 16:34:02 GMT
James May's Cars of the People, Series 2 Episode 2
Sunday, 31 January 21:00 BBC Two
 James May goes off-road to tell the story of how the 4x4 conquered the world. From the wartime jeep to the global struggle between Land Rover and Land Cruiser, the white-knuckle world of rallying and boy racers, plus James conquers Mount Fuji and races through the sun-scorched Mojave Desert to decide which is the ultimate people's 4x4. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zn8z9
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 29, 2016 17:18:15 GMT
James May's Cars of the People, Series 2 Episode 3 Sunday, 7 February 2016 21:00 BBC TWO James explores the wilder shores of motoring to discover what happened to the cars of the future that we were promised. From improbable steam cars and ludicrous jet turbines, he reveals how the petrol engine and the power it gave us came to dominate the 20th century. He takes to the waves in an amphibious car, risks his life at the wheel of a notorious electric scooter and takes a hair-raising trip in the fastest driverless car on earth. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b070k3ny
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 31, 2016 18:52:13 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 31, 2016 20:18:45 GMT
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Post by dit on Feb 1, 2016 0:12:25 GMT
I happened to find myself on the website for the British Board of Film Classification tonight (don't ask) and happened to find this information for programme 3
Type of media VoD
Approved Running time 59m 8s
BBFCInsight infrequent mild bad language, sex references
Genre(s) Documentary
Director(s) Tom Whitter
Cast includes James May
Cut This work was passed uncut.
Rated PG, apparently. Bad language and sex references, eh? I'm looking forward to this!
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Post by RedMoon11 on Feb 3, 2016 18:53:06 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Feb 3, 2016 18:54:56 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Feb 3, 2016 18:56:42 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Feb 3, 2016 19:00:27 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Feb 3, 2016 19:14:43 GMT
Two reviews James May’s Cars of the People Sunday, BBC Two ★★★★☆ Vera’s wheels are a Land Rover, a car that featured heavily in the history of four-by-fours that constituted the second James May’s Cars of the People. He may look increasingly cherubic in his old age — how much can it cost to insure him on these adventures? — but May remains a devil ever behind the wheel. Having driven his Range Rover down a vertiginous Nevada desert cliff, he came second to a Ford F-150 in a race to Las Vegas. What kept the Toyota Land Cruiser was never explained. Everything else about all-terrain vehicles was, however. May’s well written, visually inventive (the drone taking the desert shots crashed, and they kept the sequence in) film rattled along like the humpity bumpity army truck from which, May argued, even the clawless Fiat Panda ultimately derived. www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/tv-radio/reviews/article4678069.eceJames May’s Cars of the People | BBC2James May proved, again, not that it’s saying much, that he’s the Top Gear presenter you’d find easily the most winning when sharing (say) a balcony in Jaipur over cigars and cold beer. His Cars of the People was a great hindsight into how blinkered American pomp and wheedling British ineptitude allowed the Germans and Japanese to dominate the global postwar car market – well, that and the fact both those countries were barred by treaty from rearming and thus had to put their money and skills into a different kind of cold steel. May is a grand phrasemaker. “Trying to say something new about the E-type Jaguar is like trying to have an opinion on the weather.” Or, regarding the Vanden Plas, the successor to the Austin Allegro designed by small minds to appeal to British snobbery: “I’m not sure how it’s possible for a car to actually look embarrassed.” But it did, it did. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jan/31/week-in-tv-donald-trump-mad-world-good-wife-real-marigold-hotel-james-may-cars-people |
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Post by RedMoon11 on Feb 7, 2016 0:30:54 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Feb 7, 2016 20:29:21 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Feb 10, 2016 23:49:10 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Feb 11, 2016 5:34:09 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Feb 15, 2016 1:41:52 GMT
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Post by slfriend79 on Mar 22, 2016 11:48:28 GMT
James May's Cars Of The People - New Season - Premieres Mon, March 28 At 9/8C
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Post by RedMoon11 on Apr 18, 2016 0:53:37 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Apr 18, 2016 1:02:04 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jun 13, 2016 21:53:51 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jun 20, 2016 7:55:01 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jun 20, 2016 8:07:06 GMT
CARS OF THE PEOPLE TV-PG (LD) SEASON 2 — EPISODE 2 BBC America on Monday, June 20, 2016 at 11:00PM Eastern/10:00PM Central  James May goes off-road to tell the story of how the 4x4 conquered the world: from the wartime Jeep to the global struggle between Land Rover and Land Cruiser. Later, James conquers Mount Fuji and races through the sun-scorched Mojave Desert. www.bbcamerica.com/shows/cars-of-the-people
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jun 22, 2016 6:29:26 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jun 28, 2016 4:13:50 GMT
 CotP S2 E02 |
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jun 28, 2016 4:16:17 GMT
CARS OF THE PEOPLE TV-PG (LD) SEASON 2 — EPISODE 3 James May explores the wilder shores of motoring and reveals how the petrol engine came to dominate the 20th century. He'll take to the waves in an amphibious car, risk his life at the wheel of a notorious electric scooter and take a hair-raising trip.  by David Butcher This is unwaveringly blokeish TV. As James May addresses us from the wheel of one quirky, brilliant car after another – a steam-powered one, an amphibian one, and so on – it’s pretty much hog heaven for some of us. Jay Leno shows us his jet-powered car – an actual Chrysler from the 1960s powered by an actual jet engine, though it looks perfectly normal. The turbine could run on more or less anything flammable. In France someone filled the tank with Chanel No 5. In Mexico they ran it on tequila. But it couldn’t run on leaded petrol, so it never took off, as it were. Which is the theme of the programme: innovation that (mostly) failed. SUMMARY James looks into some of the planned new directions in motoring that never caught on, revealing how the petrol engine came to dominate motoring in the 20th century, while concepts for jet engines and steam power fell by the wayside. He also drives an amphibious car and an electric scooter, and takes a ride in the world's fastest driverless driverless car. www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/dzck5x/james-mays-cars-of-the-people--series-2---episode-3
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jul 1, 2016 9:45:37 GMT
James and Jay Leno COTP S2 E03  James takes a hair-raising trip in the fastest driverless car on earth  JAMES MAY’S CARS OF THE PEOPLE
SEASON 2 — EPISODE 3
Episode 3James May explores the wilder shores of motoring and reveals how the petrol engine came to dominate the 20th century. He’ll take to the waves in an amphibious car, risk his life at the wheel of a notorious electric scooter and take a hair-raising trip. www.bbcamerica.com/shows/cars-of-the-people/full-episodes/season-2/episode-03-episode-3 |
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