Live in Derby

Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

Top Gear, Road Trips, 5th Gear, The Grand Tour, Leisure, Cars, Automotive, Improv, Comedy

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In front of a brilliant audience at Great Northern Classics in Derby, Jonny and Richard talk about Derby Bentleys, Edwina Currie, Rolls-Royce Eagle engines, civil war in the Dacia Spring community, Paul Weller’s hair, Jonny appearing on Maltese TV, Richard having a youthful carbonara incident, teenage house parties, the death of the Ford Focus, an abandoned lorry in a restaurant car park, the problem with Leigh Delamere services, David Hasselhoff breaking down on a French road, Jonny’s strange dreams, and a deep level of irony from Girls Aloud.

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0:00.0	I'm Richard Porter.
0:02.2	I'm Johnny Smith.
0:03.3	And this is Smith and Sniff,
0:04.3	a podcast in which two friends talk about cars
0:06.0	and many other things, live in Derby.
0:19.7	Well, look, guys, listen.
0:22.7	Here's the situation.
0:25.0	Here's the scene.
0:26.3	Great Northern Classics.
0:27.4	What an amazing place that we're dwelling in tonight.
0:30.5	Absolutely love it.
0:31.7	It is.
0:32.8	In no particular order.
0:34.5	Great, northern.
0:36.3	And classic.
0:37.2	It is. Well, is it northern though? Well, it's
0:40.3	Midlandish. Steward's inquiry on that. Yeah. There's a reason for the name. I didn't know until
0:45.9	today. It's about Great Northern train line. Oh. Yeah. Because there's train sheds over there,
0:53.7	which are still train sheds.
0:54.7	I didn't know that.
0:55.6	So it's not strictly north. I don't want to get into it. It's like a jurisdiction thing. I don't run county lines. I don't know where the jurisdiction's starting. I don't know what this is about. That means something different now. Oh, okay. I was on the phone to a mate of mine this morning
1:11.3	who's from basically in Derby.
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