The Ultimate Road Trip Podcast

On this World Cup episode of The Ultimate Road Trip, James is joined by one of the biggest and respected names in sports media, football journalist Henry Winter. Henry's career spans 40 years, covering 9 World Cups, over a thousand  interviews, hundreds of match reports from the UK and across the globe, numerous books, TV and radio programmes and podcasts. Before recently heading over to the US to...

Tom Gilbey, AKA The Wine Guy, has had a remarkable couple of years. Since running the London Marathon in 2024, raising thousands of pounds for Sobell House Hospice in memory of his Mum, he has become a social media sensation, gaining hundreds of thousands of followers entertained by his rather unconventional wine reviews. His family has lived and breathed wine for many generations and on this week...

On this week's Ultimate Road Trip, James is joined by co-founder of lifestyle and clothing brand JAM Industries, Andrew Jordan, who initially found fame as a cast member of E4's reality show "Made in Chelsea". As well as revealing his Ultimate Road Trip, Andy throws some light on his experience of being in the public eye and the perception vs the reality of being on the show, along with the challe...

Season 5 of The Ultimate Road Trip Podcast is here! It's been a while, but James is back interviewing more brilliant guests and asking, funnily enough, "What's your Ultimate Road Trip??" This week's guest, Billy Reeves, is amongst other things, a musician, producer, journalist, commentator, podcaster, artist and fundraiser - he's also a big fan of Brentford FC, buses and his hometown. Billy's musi...

Singer Vehicle Design founder Rob Dickinson is the final guest on the Ultimate Road Trip Podcast for 2023! This year marked the 60th Anniversary of the unveiling of the Porsche 911 at The Frankfurt Motor Show and it's fitting that we have the man behind one of the most celebrated automotive companies of recent years on the podcast, chatting about his childhood through to his time in 90's band Cath...

Coronation Street actor Shelley King joins James on the Ultimate Road Trip Podcast this week! She's played Yasmeen for almost 10 years, but in 2019 hit the headlines for her character's gradual degradation at the hands of her thoroughly nasty husband, Geoff Metcalfe (played by Ian Bartholomew), throwing the real-life problem of coercive control in relationships into the spotlight. What many of her...

We're extremely lucky to be joined by another legendary musician this week, who just happens to be a car and motorsport fanatic... John Oates has been making music since high school, and along with his creative partner Daryl Hall, has released almost 30 studio and live albums, had six #1 singles and also has a flourishing solo career.  He's a self-confessed gearhead and in our chat reminisces abou...

We're back with Season 4 of the Ultimate Road Trip Podcast and on this latest episode, James is joined by a very special guest - 1992 Formula One World Champion, Nigel Mansell! Nigel was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last year driving a variety of cars including his Ferrari 640 from 1989 and the 1992 Championship winning Williams FW14B - celebrating 30 years since he claimed the F1 title. 'Our...

Chef Ben Robinson from the superyacht reality TV series 'Below Deck' joins me this week on the podcast!  Ben's experience in Michelin starred kitchens and on yachts, along with his British sense of humour and outlook on life obviously ticked all the producer's boxes, as he appeared in the first series of the show back in 2013. Six further Seasons later and after gaining a huge following, he decide...

Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen driver Zhou Guanyu was one of the star drivers at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed in June and I was very lucky to spend a few minutes with him on the Alfa stand in the middle of his packed schedule. After chatting about his move to the UK and rapid rise through the motorsport ranks to the heady heights of F1 and a successful start to his debut season, along with his...

This week on the podcast I'm joined by the Chief Executive Officer of W Series , Catherine Bond Muir. We met at last year's Goodwood Festival of Speed where one of her Tatuus-Alfa Romeo F3 cars was just about to be driven up the famous Goodwood hill in front of thousands of spectators.  Before we talked about her Ultimate Road Trip, Catherine told me why she started the W Series championship and h...

I'm joined by London-based automotive artist Ella Freire on this week's episode of the Ultimate Road Trip Podcast. Inspired by stories of her Grandfather racing at Brooklands and in the Mille Miglia, Ella creates stunning silk screen prints of classics and supercars, framed in flame brushed acrylic and aluminium. She has exhibited at shows and events across the UK, alongside taking on many private...

On this week's episode I'm very lucky to be joined by one of the UK's most popular entrepreneurs, Theo Paphitis.  He's best known for the BBC show "Dragons' Den" and his incredibly popular "Small Business Sunday" weekly competition on Twitter, but I've known about his love of cars for many years, so thought he'd be the perfect guest for the podcast. But before going through his Ultimate Road Trip,...

On this week's episode of the podcast I'm joined by one of the most influential designers of his generation and a man who likes his cars - a lot. Marc Newson has designed everything from an ashtray to an airport departure lounge and last year during lockdown it was great to chat with him online, touching on his early years in Australia, his Ford concept car design and his Ultimate Road Trip, which...

It's a very special episode of the podcast this week as I'm joined by three-time Formula One World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart. It was a privilege to chat with him about his early years shooting and then racing, the people he's met from many and varied walks of life, to setting up the pioneering charity Race Against Dementia. His love of Scotland has never diminished and as you'll hear, it plays a...

Season 3 of The Ultimate Road Trip Podcast is here! Over the next few weeks, I'll be chatting to the great and the good of Formula One, W-Series, design, business, music, art and more... and for the first episode of the new season, it was wonderful to catch up with The Boxer Rebellion's Piers Hewitt. During lockdown, drumming had been restricted to his online lessons, rather than playing live to t...

Chrysalis Music Group co-founder Chris Wright joins me for this episode of the podcast. He helped to launch the careers of Jethro Tull, Procol Harum, Blondie and Ultravox and built up a media empire expanding into Radio and TV. He's owned QPR and Wasps (winning the Heineken European Cup twice) and runs a successful horseracing stud with a number of Group 1 winners. He's also travelled the world, b...

The Classic Motor Hub, based at the former RAF Bibury in the Cotswolds, is a unique space - car sales, storage, workshops, concierge services, events and more are taken care of by a hugely experienced and knowledgeable team. As they themselves say, "Its more than just a showroom..." Richard Wrightson is Sales Manager at the Hub, and joins me for this week's episode of the podcast. As well as going...

Film and TV producer Tarquin Gotch joins me for this week's episode of the podcast. He started his career in music publishing and A+R, but moved into music supervising and then producing on many of John Hughes' films through the 80's and 90's, including Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Home Alone. He's also managed musicians, actors and writers including Rowan Atkinson, Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais a...

On the podcast this week, I'm joined by Dave Robinson, co-founder of the iconic Stiff Records, the label which turned the music business on its head with its anarchic, leftfield approach to promoting its bands and artists. Stiff signed names including Madness, The Pogues, The Damned, Elvis Costello, Kirsty McColl, Nick Lowe and Ian Dury, but Dave's also known for tour managing Jimi Hendrix, runnin...

This week's guest fronts the world's biggest rock band - AC/DC's lead singer Brian Johnson is also an authority on cars, and it's a real privilege that he joins me on the Ultimate Road Trip podcast. Along with the usual 5 URT questions, we talked about his general love of cars and motor racing and how all things automotive have played an important part in his life. There are the TV shows which he'...

The name Alex Hirschi may not ring too many initial bells, but undoubtedly you'll have heard of 'that girl with the cars' Supercar Blondie and I'm excited to say that she's my guest for this week's edition of the Ultimate Road Trip Podcast. She's a social media sensation with millions of followers, but last year was of course a little different than usual. After initially taking advantage of the p...

Last year, the motor racing world paid tribute to the great Sir Stirling Moss, who died in April at the age of 90. It was a huge privilege for me to interview him on a number of occasions, from Brooklands to Goodwood, and the last time I briefly spoke to him was at the Festival of Speed. He was there to drive his ex-Mille Miglia Mercedes 300 SLR and I thought I'd ask what he'd take on his Ultimate...

On this week's Ultimate Road Trip Podcast, I'm  joined by two times Formula One and Indy 500 Champion Emerson Fittipaldi. He was reunited with his Lotus 72's at Goodwood last October, and it was a privilege to chat with him before he headed out onto the circuit alongside his old rival and good friend Sir Jackie Stewart. Thanks again for listening, please share/follow or subscribe! The five element...

This week I'm joined by one of the UK's most popular chefs, James Martin. When he's not running restaurants or fronting some of the highest rated food shows on TV, he'll be collecting, racing or just tinkering with cars. When we met at Goodwood Speedweek, he was keen to talk about how the hospitality industry was dealing with lockdown, as well as the fabulous classic he'd pick for the URT.  Thanks...