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Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure

Top Gear, Grand Tour and Twenty Years of Magic and Mayhem

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Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure

By: Andy Wilman
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Top Gear turned gloomy Sunday nights into celebratory Friday nights. It made household names of presenters Clarkson, Hammond and May, their unique chemistry and buddy movie antics proving irresistible to a vast global audience. With these three at the helm, Top Gear earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most popular factual TV show on the planet.

Then, a short while later, it was all gone.

How did a thoroughly sensible little consumer advice programme on cars turn into a global phenomenon in the first place, though? How did it all go wrong? And how did they rise from the ashes as The Grand Tour, and go on to scale even greater heights?

One man has all the answers.

There from the beginning, Top Gear and The Grand Tour co-creator, and Jeremy’s oldest friend, Andy Wilman, opens the bonnet on over twenty years of motoring mayhem. In Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure, the mysterious man in the shadows tells the inside story of your favourite TV shows for the first time.

Irreverent, joyful and as laugh-out-loud funny as the shows themselves, it’s the best book about Top Gear and The Grand Tour . . . in the world.

© Andy Wilman 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

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An absolute must for anyone who followed TG or TGT, or for insights into the making of TV. Very nicely written.

A great journey and well read

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What a marvellous look behind the scenes of a show that meant so much to so many. We never realise the effort in the people they’re going to making such an outstanding show, and it’s nice to have the opportunity dear those stories and be thankful for all their contributions. Thank you, Andy.

One for the nostalgia!

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Great insight into the history of both shows and the people behind it. Thank you for sharing.

Probably the sadest tears…..in the world.

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If you loved top gear or the grand tour, this is a brilliant breakdown of the iconic shows by someone at the heart of the drama and fully worth your time.

Brilliantly entertaining

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Possibly the best book I have ever listened to. 'Mr Wilman' attempts and succeeds in putting into words the unique chemistry that made TG and GT the shows they were. There are other titles written by the 3 main characters but this is a unique and refreshing behind the scenes type view and brilliantly illustrates and acknowledges the whole family that made these unique and brilliant pieces of TV history.

Simply Brilliant!!

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