Hello CT. My name is Richard Porter and I was the script editor on Top Gear. Ask me anything.
After working on the show for 13 years, 22 series and 175 programmes, there’s quite a lot I can tell you about Top Gear. I know whose idea it was to get a dog, I was there when we got threatened by drug barons in Bolivia, I can give you the real story of that Porsche number plate.
After working on the show for 13 years, 22 series and 175 programmes, there’s quite a lot I can tell you about Top Gear. I know whose idea it was to get a dog, I was there when we got threatened by drug barons in Bolivia, I can give you the real story of that Porsche number plate. I’ve put all these things in my new book, but you can ask me about them anyway. Or something else. Up to you. I’m here all night. Try the soup in a basket.
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Will you fit in my Honda?
How did the BBC convince all these landowners to allow a handful of people to drive over, sometimes absolutely destroying, their property and land?
Hi Richard, How do you get permission to do all of the stuff? like racing the corvette in the shopping centre and the formula one cars driving on the road.
Are the guys friends of camera? Like, do they grab a beer together after shooting, visit eachother occasionally?
Also, if you start working for their new Amazon show, get them to come film more in Norway ;)
Perhaps a bit at the Gatebil festival? (Google it, its big)
Are You going to Amazon with the old trio?
Who was the craziest star in the reasonably priced car to work with?
Did the trio really build a bridge over a river called “kok” and was it actually an accident that they built it over that river instead of the one they intended?
Did the trio actually have a part in making the contraptions in topgear challenges ? Like the limousines?
How much travelling did you do? Favorite country to visit and film in?
Why did the cool wall never make a return? You know…after Fifth Gear burnt it…