Brooklands Museum Talks

This instalment in Evro’s decade-by-decade series covering all Formula 1 cars and teams is devoted to a period when some normality seemed to return after the ground-effect and turbo excesses of the 1980s, except for one terrible weekend in the spring of 1994. The tragic deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna led to immense change with new emphasis on safety, including measures to slow down...

This track features a recent MGCC gathering at Brooklands and the re-opening of the London Bus Museum.

In this episode we hear from Sophia Dady about her writing the music and lyrics about Donald Campbell with an exclusive play of a brand new song. We also visit the Byfleet Fire Station Fun Day where we catch up with Julian Temple to tell us all about the desire to save it.

Derek talks with Maurice Hamilton and Harry Sherrard about life as an F1 driver, and his time in motorsport. An engaging and oft humorous tete-a-tete!

'Glorious...gripping and sometimes tragic' Robbie Coltrane The inspirational story of the Bentley Boys and Le Mans – the race they made their own. Le Mans, 1927. W.O. Bentley peered into the dusk. His three cars, which had led from the start, were missing. Two years running he had failed to finish. Once again he was staring into a void. Racing, his shareholders told him, was a waste of money. This...

The author Sam Smith talks with Steve Clarke about the evolution of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, motorsport's fastest growing discipline. A fascinating insight into this action-packed racing series.

Steve Clarke talks with the author Chas Parker about his new book on the insight and design of the Model T and many of its variants. A fascinating read.

In this episode we record the memories of Donald Campbell's daughter Gina and his nephew Don Wales on the 100th anniversary of Donald's birth, and Brooklands reopens its doors on May 19th to the public to view the many exhibits inside as well as out.

Five times winner of Le Mans 24 hours, Daytona three times and the World Sportscar Championship twice, Derek talks from his home in Miami with Harry in Greece and BMtv capturing the recording in Surrey, about his life in the fast lane!

The author Peter Higham talks with Senna's McLaren mechanic and caretaker for McLaren's MP4-4 Neil Trundle. This instalment in Evro’s decade-by-decade series covering all Formula 1 cars and teams is devoted to a period when some normality seemed to return after the ground-effect and turbo excesses of the 1980s, except for one terrible weekend in the spring of 1994. The tragic deaths of Roland Ratz...

One man's tale of high flying adventures and a life in the fast lane. Vic Norman talks with Steve Cropley about his life, family and love of cars and aerobatics. A fascinating and highly enjoyable listen!

Bass guitar in The Blues Band and all round good egg and Brooklands Member performs an acoustic set at Brooklands for our first Livestream to YouTube channel.

As Brooklands Museum prepares to open its doors again to the public as Covid restrictions ease, The track records some of the work involved...

This episode features former Head of Collections John Pulford who was there at the very beginnings of Brooklands Museum as they celebrate 30 years of public opening. We also remember Jazz musician Chris Barber and the 100th birthday of Donald Campbell and look forward to the new TV show "Secrets of the Transport Museum".

Marking the occasion of Donald Campbell's 100th birthday we bring together two members of his family - daughter Gina Campbell and nephew Don Wales talk with Harry Sherrard about not only the public face of Donald and his record breaking achievements, but also personal reminiscences of the private Donald Campbell and family life.

With Dr Iain Murray talking about Barnes Wallis Highball and Bob Webb's memories of the banjo player Tony Pitt who played with the Brooklands All Stars Trad Jazz Band.

Harry Sherrard tells the story of Goodwood.

For over 50 years, renowned motor sport and aviation artist Michael Turner annually produced a set of paintings depicting stand-out moments from that year’s Formula One and sports car racing season. The paintings were reproduced as a set of Christmas cards and made available through Michael’s own company, Studio 88, which he formed in 1963. Over the years, these cards became highly-collectable to...

Dr Iain Murray from the Barnes Wallis Foundation talks with Harry Sherrard about the Highball design, its tests in 1943 and retrieval from Loch Striven in 2017. It is now displayed with other Barnes Wallis designed munitions at Brooklands Museum.

In this Brooklands Radio episode, Simon Taylor talks about his friendship with Sir Stirling Moss and Steve Clarke talks with the renowned artist Michael Turner about his motorsport collection of work.

Oral recordings of those with memories of working at Vickers Brooklands during World War Two.

The Track No4. The Wellington R for Robert and the Delahaye by Nonesuche Media

The Loch Ness Wellington group Jack Waterfall, Rachel Kellett and Vic Attwood discuss their personal involvement in the group and the 80th Anniversary of R for Robert ditching in Loch Ness on 31st December 1940 with Tim Morris.

This year was a record-breaking year for the Royal Automobile Club Motoring Book of the Year Awards. The six judges read, scrutinised and discussed no fewer than 32 high-quality submissions before agreeing the six final nominees and ultimately the winners of both the General and Specialised categories.

SuperFinds author Michael Kliebenstein talks with Steve Clarke about the evolution of SuperFinds and its unique collection of classic car photographs