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Richard Hammond

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first: 2023-02-13
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“Average Bromio never go. Wow, they'll go, that's no harm in my Dedic scot one like that only bigger. It's just something we do. We don't profess to do that. And you kind of need to be able to do that to then think that's what I might pursue. So key moment. Am I making this up as being a key moment? I don't know it feels like it when I was eight, something like that nine. My dad's parents lived in Western Supermare. So we'd go on holiday there which meant an endless drive from Birmingham. Yes, before the motorway went all the way.”
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“See, my favorite game is to look back and pretend they were all part of some great plan and thread them all together, but you can only do that in retrospect. For me, I guess I always liked expression. I wanted to be a painter or I wanted to draw really well. I loved art at school. I loved English. I loved writing. But I love photography when I was about ten, improvised a little dark room under the stairs and print my own black and white photographs. So I loved all of that, but I was very much things like that were for other people. There was a Birmingham thing. Brummies I've always had brummies don't go wow.”
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“Yes, thank you so much. We've already just as I was coming in. We mentioned that the fact that I talk regularly to full-grown adults, important people, you do lots of important stuff. And they're, oh, yeah, I love your show. I used to watch it when I was a little kid. I've done it that long.”
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“And then we moved north as a family and I went to Ripping Grammar School up in the north and from there started working radio in nineteen eighty eight. That's a long time ago, isn't it?”
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“Where? Uh yep, little fella, born in Birmingham and dad I'm the elders of three brothers quite a close knit family. My mum's dad worked in the car industry he was a coach builder so he was trained as a cabinet maker working with wood then he went into coach building which is in the old days when cars had a steel chassis and then they'd have an ash usually wooden frame over the top so that's where he started'cause his cabinet making skills are relevant. But then he stayed within the car industry and finished up working at Jensen so cars were always They were always in my imagination They weren't like littering the drive'cause we had modest means so we had a purple marina coupe as a best car but I loved them and that grown to an obsession. Yeah, so schooled there until fifteen”
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“Had called Mindy in. They said, I think we're losing him. I had very bad post-traumatic amnesia, like a one-minute memory. I have to consciously write memories down and work hard to recall them.”
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“We went out in front of 60,000 people. And just before I went out, I said, Lad, I have three guys with less talent ever gone out in front of more people.”
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“Funny, quicker and real. Every compensatory measure that anybody who's diminutive in height has ever made I've done. It's one of the reasons I'm a broadcaster now, for sure.”
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