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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Friday, April 24 on U&Dave (19)

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Season 28, Episode 4

Chris Harris and Freddie Flintoff tackle the Baja 1000 off-road race. On the test track, a showdown is held between a Renault hot hatch, a Porsche sports car and an old Lamborghini. Guests Laurence and Emilia Fox drop in to the studio


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Leisure Hobbies Motoring

Cast & Crew

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Chris Harris (Presenter)
Paddy McGuinness (Presenter)
Freddie Flintoff (Presenter)
Emilia Fox (Guest)
Clare Pizey (Executive producer)
Alex Renton (Executive producer)
Nick Dalton (Series producer)

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Chris Harris (Presenter)
Born: January 20, 1975 in United Kingdom
Best Known For: Presenting Top Gear.
Early-life: Born on January 20, 1975 in the United Kingdom. Chris attended Clifton College in Bristol. His career in the automotive industry started with a role at Autocar magazine, where he did a number of menial labour tasks before eventually being promoted to an official road-test editor.
Career: In 2008, Harris left Autocar to co-found a web-based digital platform called Drivers Republic. This shut down a year later and Harris joined Evo magazine as a writer and reviewer until 2011. He joined Evo again in 2015. Harris has also amassed a following on YouTube, originally with the automotive network /Drive and later with his own channel called Chris Harris on Cars. He partnered with Neil Carey to shoot the Chris Harris on Cars series, which was absorbed by the BBC in 2016. Harris joined the cast of Top Gear as a recurring presenter for the 23rd series before becoming one of the main presenters in the 24th series.
Quote: 'Cars draw you in through aesthetics and technology like the best visual arts. And then you have the world of driving and operating them to enjoy afterwards.'
Trivia: He is also a racing driver, having won the Formula Palmer Audi in 2000 and taking part in endurance races like the 24 Hours Nurburgring.
Paddy McGuinness (Presenter)
Born: August 14, 1973 in Farnworth, Bolton
Best Known For: Phoenix Nights, his TV presenting work, and his catchphrases.
Early-life: Born Patrick Joseph McGuinness in Bolton on August 14, 1973, where he went to school with Peter Kay. He had various jobs including as a silver service waiter at JJ's A La Carte Restaurant, a warehouse worker for Morrisons, a building site labourer, a lifeguard at Horwich leisure centre and a job cleaning machines at Warburtons bakery.
Career: While still working at Horwich, he filmed two episodes of That Peter Kay Thing and the first series of Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights. He left his job when work on the second series of Phoenix Nights began. The show spawned a spin-off series, Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere. His popularity skyrocketed, and his ensuing stand-up tour was a major hit. McGuinness also released a fitness DVD titled Max & Paddy's The Power of Two. He went on to become a regular on TV, presenting Take Me Out, 71 Degrees North, Paddy's Show & Telly, Mad Mad World, Text Santa, Paddy's TV Guide, and Your Face Sounds Familiar. He's also guest-hosted The Paul O'Grady Show and featured alongside Rory McGrath in Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure, which followed the duo's trips to remote communities where they participated in such sports as cheese rolling and bog snorkelling.
Quote: 'It was never my conscious decision to go, 'I must put some catchphrases in here'. I just wrote it and did it to get something that people could be familiar with in the show, and it stuck.'
Trivia: He has taken part in the charity football match Soccer Aid, which raises money for Unicef.
Freddie Flintoff (Presenter)
Emilia Fox (Guest)
Born: July 31, 1974 in London
Best Known For: Silent Witness.
Early-life: Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox was born on July 31, 1974, in London, to thespians Edward Fox and Joanna David. With so many relatives involved in the entertainment industry, including her uncles James and Robert, and grandmother Angela, Emilia naturally gravitated towards an acting career and made her screen debut in the acclaimed TV version of Pride and Prejudice alongside Colin Firth and her mother Joanna while still a student at Oxford University. Her younger brother, Freddie, has also decided to follow the family tradition. Emilia is also musical - she plays the cello, piano and trumpet.
Career: Since leaving full-time education, Fox has worked consistently on TV, but still found time to tread the boards and appear in movies. Period dramas Rebecca, The Round Tower and the aforementioned Pride and Prejudice brought her fame, but it was the remake of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) in 2000 that made her a household name. In 2002 she starred in Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning The Pianist and has more recently worked with Britain's acting elite in Gunpowder, Treason & Plot, The Virgin Queen, Marple: The Moving Finger, Born Equal, Upstairs Downstairs and Fallen Angel. In 2004 she took over from Amanda Burton as the lead actress in Silent Witness, and has been playing forensic pathologist Nikki Alexander ever since.
Quote: On attending film premieres: 'If you want to see that film, then great, but don't do it just to have your photo taken because that's silly, and inevitably you get hurt by it. People start picking up on things about your life that are irrelevant.'
Trivia: She is a patron of the environmental and human rights charity the Environmental Justice Foundation.
Laurence Fox (Guest)
Born: May 26, 1978 in Yorkshire
Best Known For: Lewis.
Early-life: Laurence Paul Fox was born in Yorkshire on May 26, 1978. Born into a theatrical family, he is the son of actor James Fox and the nephew of actor Edward Fox and theatre and film producer Robert Fox. Acting relatives also include his brother Jack and sister Lydia, and cousins Emilia Fox and Freddie Fox. Two years after leaving Harrow, Laurence developed a love of acting and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada). During his time there, he appeared in a number of stage productions.
Career: Fox was still studying at Rada when he landed a role in his first feature film, 2001 horror-thriller The Hole. He went on to star in Gosford Park (2001), TV miniseries Island at War and TV movie Colditz. His big break came in 2006 when he was cast alongside Kevin Whately in Inspector Morse spin-off Lewis. Other credits include Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Becoming Jane (2007), W.E. (2011) and TV movie Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me. Fox has also featured in a number of stage productions, including Strangers on a Train at London's Gielgud Theatre.
Quote: 'Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.'
Trivia: Wed fellow actress Billie Piper in 2007.
Clare Pizey (Executive producer)
Alex Renton (Executive producer)
Nick Dalton (Series producer)

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