How Top Gear took over the world #133
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel mark the 20th anniversary of 'new' Top Gear by assessing its legacy and discussing how it became a global phenomenon. Just what did Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond get so right?
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you |
| 0:08.3 | slide by on track to your |
| 0:15.0 | there, |
| 0:20.0 | the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:21.0 | This is how travels should feel and on our trains it does. |
| 0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast feel good travel. Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | The Intercooler Podcast. a podcast. Welcome to episode 133 of the podcast everybody with Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel. |
| 0:56.0 | Andrew last week new top gear as it's known turned 20 years old. |
| 1:04.0 | The first episode of the studio based |
| 1:08.9 | top gear aired on the 20th of October 2002. |
| 1:13.0 | So 20 years ago last week. |
| 1:15.0 | And so it seemed like a good time to sort of discuss its influence, its legacy, what it meant to you and I, I think will come at this from two very |
| 1:25.2 | different perspectives I was 15 when it first went out and a total petrol head |
| 1:29.9 | you were already a well established |
| 1:34.8 | a well established car journalist you probably knew I was 36 there you go you probably |
| 1:40.0 | knew many of the people involved I was older then than you are now. |
| 1:44.0 | That is quite annoying. |
| 1:46.0 | I won't rub it in. |
| 1:48.0 | So we came from very different perspectives, |
| 1:51.0 | and I think we might view it slightly differently but we'll see. |
| 1:54.5 | And you know the reason for doing this is because it became a global phenomenon |
| 2:02.2 | didn't it that top gear and unlike any other thing in the world of |
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