I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith.

And this is on the other side of things, the Smith and Sniff spin-off in which we answer your questions.

Before we start with answering questions, I just wanted to take a moment to talk about Quentin Wilson,

who I assume people will know by now, sadly died last Saturday.

I've mentioned many times on this podcast. I work with Quentin. My first job in TV on the Cars of the Star and then Top Gear.

So I owe him an enormous amount for the fact that in my first job, which was researching on

the Cars the Star, I pulled together all this information. It was a show about the Larder.

And then we weren't filming for a few weeks. So the producer said, well, why don't you try

and pull some of this research together into a script? And I was like, well, I don't know how to do that. And he gave me some old scripts from previous episodes. And then just left me alone for a week more, I think, to hash together this script as best I could. But then I had the luxury of being able to sort of come back to it, edit it, revise it, try and make it as good as I could whilst blundering about not really knowing what I was doing.

And then Quentin came into the office and it was the first time I'd met him.

And he was exactly like he was on the TV, except that he swore more, which was kind of thrilling in its own right.

And he was very charming and very friendly.

And we all sat down and the producer had printed out this script that I'd written.

And he gave it to Quentin.

And we sat there while Quentin read it.

He sort of looked up and straight at me and he went, did you write this?

And I said, yeah, yes, yes, I did.

And he went, it's very good.

Wow. And I can't overstate how important that was, just that little moment in making me think,

oh God, I, the man off the tellies just told me that my script's good and maybe I can have a go at this more often and it was it was such a priceless moment for me and the thing about quentin is that he never

stopped in that level of support and encouragement and I would write stuff for him all the time.

And of course, you know, he would take it and adapt it and make his own and add bits.

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