The Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast

No Such Thing as a Trentatre Sottomarina. Guy Swarbrick, Kirsty Hodson, John Griffiths and David Faithful share their favourite facts about Alfa Romeo. From an Alfa Romeo with surprising underwater connections to a concept car with Calibra headlights and a two door ambulance to an unlikely movie star.

In Episode 125 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with the Alfa Romeo Concierge at Stellantis &You in Leicester – friend of the the podcast Saber Ali - to talk about his role, the challenges of operating a retailer, Alfa’s heritage, customers electrification and the models the marque needs in the future.

Episode 124 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - sees Editor Guy Swarbrick sit down with Club Chairman John Griffiths, Club manager Nick Wright and Club Secretary David Faithful to discuss the UK’s biggest Alfa event by far - National Alfa Day.

In Episode 123 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Guy Swarbrick ventured into the Chilterns above Henley-on-Thames to talk about the Club’s upcoming National Concours – and to provide some general tips on concours competitions. His guests were Club finance Director and Chief Concours judge John Timms, fellow judge Andrew Stevens, overall 2026 concours...

In Episode 122 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Guy Swarbrick talks to GT Registrar Nathan Mahoney and 159 Registrar Debbi Lindsey about their new lives as social media stars. How did it all come about? What have they done so far? What have they learned? What are their plans for the future? If you have ideas for future content, you can contact them...

In Episode 121 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with Club Manager Nick Wright and Club Secretary David Faithful to talk about the packed programme of events in store of Alfisti in the UK this year - and the new Alfa Romeo Driver Academy, recently launched in Italy.

In Episode 120 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick is at Goodwood – during a fairly noisy test session - to meet legendary Alfa racer Chris Snowdon and his business partner Richard Melvin of CSR to talk about their long association with the Alfetta GTV and the ex-Jon Dooley Napolina GTV6 that they’ll be racing at the Goodwood Membe...

In our fifth annual International Women's Day episode, Alfa Female's Kirsty Hodson sits down with Alfa Romeo and Italian Intermarque Championship racer Stacey Dennis to talk about her life in racing and discuss ideas about how to get more women involved in the Alfa racing scene. 

In Episode 118 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with Club Chairman - and friend of the podcast - John Griffiths to talk about how he got the bug, the Alfas he's owned (and the ones he wishes he had) and how his involvement with the Club has evolved.

As usual, we're taking short break over Christmas and the New Year but we're not going to leave you without a podcast to listen to! Episode 117 dips back into the archive and extracts the 'Alfas we've owned' sections from four of our early 'Meet the Board' episodes. Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick begins with Club Manager Nick Wright, then Motorsport Director Richard Murtha, Finance Directo...

No Such Thing as the Slough-Dover-Coventry Triangle. Guy Swarbrick, Kirsty Hodson, John Griffiths, Nick Wright and David Faithful share their favourite facts about Alfa Romeo - in the UK (mostly!). A surprising number of Alfa Romeo importers have come and gone within a triangle bounded by former offices and Slough, Dover and the current HQ in Coventry. What's going on?

The Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - live from the NEC - with Editor Guy Swarbrick, Club Chairman John Griffiths and Club Manager Nick Wright. Thanks to Tony and the team from the Car Chum podcast - you can listen to this episode and others recorded during the event at carradio.co.uk or on the Car Radio channel on TuneIn and other internet radio apps.

In this bumper episode of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick and guests focus on the upcoming Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the NEC – and provide impressions of the new 2026 Alfa Romeo Tonale.  With Club Chairman John Griffiths, Club Manager Nick Wright and Alfa Female’s Kirsty Hodson.

In Episode 113 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down in a kitchen above a bicycle shop in Ipswich, to explore the story of the Giulia cycling team car which was such a hit at Club events this year - and talk about Steve's plans for next year.   You can find out more about the car in the December issue of Alfa Romeo Driver -...

Hello and welcome to episode 112 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club. With Editor Guy Swarebrick this month are one of the Club’s newest Section Secretaries Andrew Whitehead – know to his friends as TED – and friend of the podcast, MiTo Registrar and AROC Racing Leagues commentator Reeve Taylor to talk about the eSports Section’s latest activities, includ...

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with AROC Manager Nick Wright and Management Team member David Faithful to discuss National Alfa Day - which will be held at Bicester Motion on the 17th of August. Find out what's in store at the biggest and best Alfa Romeo event of the year!

In Episode 110 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club we have something slightly different – or, rather, we have two slightly different things. Lance Dong of the San Diego Chapter of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club of the USA - a regular listener to the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast started his own podcast - Always Looking for Another. Lance interviewed Guy Swarbric...

In Episode 109 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club. Editor Guy Swarbrick talks to 75 Registrar Nick Suiter, 159 Registrar Debbie Lindsey and Giulia Registrar Andrew Celi to talk about their models’ 40th, 20th and 10th anniversaries respectively. 

In this month's episode of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with his very first guest - Management Team member David Faithful to choose their favourite ten episodes from the last five years.

Hello and welcome to Episode 107 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club. This month I sat down with Alfa Hillclimber, National Alfa Day pace car driver and friend of the Podcast Mike Stark - and Former Club Chairman (and Alfa Romeo Driver Editor) Ed McDonough to talk about their recent discovery of an Alfa Romeo which competed at the Aston Hillclimb in 1912...

Episode 106 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club is our annual International Women's Day podcast. AROC Management Team member and Alfa Female founder Kirsty Hodson sat down with AROC New Zealand President Kirsten Adams-Ford and Head of PR for Alfa Romeo in the UK Krystyna Perry to talk about their achievements and their love of the marque. International Wo...

In episode 105 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast – brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick hosts one of our occasional ‘Meet the Club Officials’ podcasts. Taking over from David Faithful as MiTo Registrars makes Owen Reeve and Reeve Taylor two of the bravest individuals we've had on the show.

In Episode 104 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club. Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with professional racing driver – and instructor – Steve Deeks to talk about his passion for Alfa Romeo. They talked for so long, we turned it into two epsiodes. Part 1 was released in December as Episode 103 and covered Steve’s early racing career and his links to Alfa Rome...

In Episode 103 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with professional racing driver – and instructor – Steve Deeks to talk about his passion for Alfa Romeo. They talked for so long, we’ve turned it into two epsiodes - in Part 1 they talked Steve’s early racing career and his links to Alfa Romeo – and how that developed into t...

In this special bonus episode of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with Club Chairman John Griffiths and Club Manager Nick Wright - and a live audience - in the Podcast Lounge at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the NEC to talk about the show, the Club, the year's events and the Club's Guardian microsite schem...