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This week, on the Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Rachael Downie visit the 2nd Sleeping with Art event held at Hedsor House in Buckinghamshire. Sleeping with Art is a celebration of art, design and creativity with an automotive focus.

In this week's podcast, we speak to;

Renata Fernandes - Sleeping with Art founder and curator. Renata talks about her event in its second year and the story behind curating her event.

Ian Briggs - Design Director and Co-Founder of BAC. Ian was exhibiting two BAC Monos at the event, one of which was painted as an art car by Renne Turrek. Ian also shares his vision for creating the brilliant BAC Mono.

Dave Moore - Classic and Bespoke Project Manager at Caton. Caton recently made waves in the automotive world with their revived Austin Healey, and Dave shares details on the car and his career.

Dell Gregory - Founder and Editor in Chief at B500 Magazine and head of communications at Arkonik. Dell founded B500 magazine before taking on communications with Arkonik, the builders of custom Land Rover Defenders and soon Range Rover Classics.

Indra Flack - Editorial Portrait Photographer. Indra shares some fantastic stories about capturing portraits of racing icons such as Sir Stirling Moss and Derek Bell despite not setting out to work in the automotive world.

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Helen Stanley is a TV presenter, artist, and podcaster in the automotive world with a brand new podcast called 'Cars of The Macabre' in which she explores the spooky and paranormal world of motoring.

John Marcar (perhaps unsurprisingly) is somewhat of a critic, whilst Rachael Downie is more of a believer. In this episode, Helen, John and Rachael share some stories and theories on the paranormal activity in and around the world of cars.

Beyond the spooky stuff, we also discuss Helen's career, artwork, and refreshingly unfiltered opinions on the automotive world's modern movements, including EVs.

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Ever wondered what it takes to smash a lap record at the world-famous Isle of Man TT? Well, wonder no more as on this week's Driven Chat Podcast, Rachael Downie and John Marcar are joined by Peter Hickman, British Super Bike racing and TT legend.

Peter is currently the 'outright lap record holder' at the TT with an incredible lap time of 16mins and 42 seconds and a frankly staggering AVERAGE speed of 135.45mph.

In this conversation, Peter shares his fantastic approach to his profession through his inspiring mental attitude and outlook on life. Bikers and non-bikers alike can relate to Peter's way of thinking as a racer, a business owner and an entrepreneur.

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On this week's Driven Chat Podcast, Amy Shore joins John Marcar for a 1-2-1 catch-up and to address our latest listeners' letters and questions with some incredible stories, including one about a self-destructing mini, another about a Hillman Imp with a cardboard windscreen, and some stories featuring less-than-ideal scenes involving classic VW beetles.

We also tackle a few questions and offer equally questionable advice on road rage, how to crash a classic mini and why you definitely should never put coloured tints on your car windscreen (EVER!).

If you would like to have your own story featured, please email it to [email protected], DM us via your preferred social media feed (@drivenchat) or find the contact page on our website - where you'll also be able to find lots of lovely interesting automotive content in the form of written articles, videos, photo galleries and more.

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Alex Riley is a presenter, writer, comedian and more with a fantastic career working in car and non-car television. In this conversation hosted by john Marcar, Alex shares his incredible story of how he went from a tedious office job to pursue his dream - starting as a researcher on BBC Top Gear in the 1990s.

Alex had a clear goal for his television career: getting in front of the camera and presenting. Fortunately, he got his chance when Top Gear went through some mild turmoil just before the format featuring Clarkson, Hammond and May.

In this lighthearted and fun chat, Alex shares some of his highs and lows and even offers advice to anyone pursuing a similar career. To find out more about Alex, you can find him on social media via @alexrileynow.

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How do you feel about spending up to £2mil on a property located on the edge of the Silverstone Circuit? Pretty special, right? - There's just one catch, you can't live there.

In this week's Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Rachael Downie sit down with the 'big boss', Will Tindall of ESCAPADE, a new concept in property ownership enabling buyers to own a property just meters from the tarmac of the home of British motorsport - The Silverstone Circuit.

ESCAPADE is a hotel where private buyers can take ownership of luxurious suites overlooking Britain's most famous circuit. John and Rachael visited what is currently a building site to learn more about the project and the man behind it, Will Tindall.

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To find out more about ESCAPADE - please visit: https://www.escapadeliving.com/

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In this week's Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar brings the sounds of The Goodwood Revival Meeting 2022 along with guest host - Tim Hutton. In this extra special episode, we hear from racing drivers, racing car owners, team mechanics and media personalities all captured at the world's most prestigious and most celebrated historic motorsport event, The Goodwood Revival Meeting in West Sussex.

Our guest co-host Tim Hutton is the founder, owner and editor of Private Motor Club Magazine and also heads up the marketing and PR division of Zenvo Automotive.

In this Goodwood Revival Special, over the course of 3 days of the event, you can expect to hear from;

Day 1 - FRIDAY

Journalist, Writer & Magazine Editor - Tim Hutton

Photographer and Driven Chat Host - Amy Shore

Racing Driver and owner of DK Engineering - James Cottingham

BTCC Legend - Gordon Sheddon

F1 Driver and motorsport Pundit - Karun Chandhok

F1 world Champion & Friend of the show - Jenson Button

Motoring Journalist and broadcaster - Alex Goy

Day 2 - SATURDAY

Journalist - Charlotte Vowden

Motorsport Engineer - Karim Demynn

Racing Legend & 5 time Le Mans Winner - Derek Bell MBE

Racing Driver - Alex Brundle

Racing Driver - Darren Turner

Photographer - George Williams

Day 3 - SUNDAY

Settrington Cup Star - Freddie Wood

Racing Driver - Miles Lacey

Racing Driver (& Revival Icon) - Grant Williams

Racing Driver - Marino Franchitti

Racing Driver - Alex Brundle

Racing Driver - Dario Franchitti

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In this week's Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar gets all geeky about all things Porsche as he sits down with 2 of the three directors at RPM Technik - specialists in Porsche GT cars.

RPM Technik is a company at the top of its game in restoring, rebuilding, preparing and selling Porsche products with a particular penchant for GT models. In this week's conversation, John talks to sales Director Grieg Daly and Commercial Director Darren Anderson about their company.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, in this conversation, we dive into all things Porsche but also share the details on what it takes to leap into working with your passion.

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In this week's Driven Chat Podcast we're dropping our episode a day earlier than usual on Sunday because John Marcar and Rachael Downie bring you a walk-around podcast from Britains Poshest Car Event - Salon Privé 2022 at Blenheim Palace.

In this episode, Rachael and John speak to the event founder David Bagley about his 17th Salon Prive Event. Two-time Dakar Rally winner Nani Roma. CEO and Founder of Viritech, Timothy Lyons joins us to talk about his exciting new hydrogen-powered hypercar, Apricale. Cole Hennessey of the Hennessey family talks to us about the new Hennessey Venom F5 Roadster, which is set to break a speed record (already set by Hennessey!). We then talk to a friend of the show, Jody Millhouse, the man behind Thornton Hundred Motorcycles, who was at the event to display his incredible custom Triumph motorcycles. 

Next up is Luke from Clive Sutton, who attended to display one of the most unexpected luxury cars at the show... a London Taxi! Racecars come next and John and Rachael talk to John Roach from Radical about the brands 25th anniversary. From established car brands to new brands, for our last interview, John and Rachael talk to the head of design for Deus, Adrian-Filip Butuca, about the Deus Vayanne - a 2.7million euro EV hypercar. 

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In this week's Driven Chat Podcast, John Marcar and Rachael Downie bring you two conversations recorded initially for our Radio Show on talkSPORT2. As is often the way with radio segments, often the final product is significantly shorter than the original recording - and so, we're bringing you both conversations in full right here on the podcast.

First is the wonderful Ginny Buckley, who talks to us about her new Dispatches documentary on Channel 4 called 'Why is my car so expensive?' The show offers a brilliant piece of investigative journalism to discover why new and used cars are rocketing in price and if it's justified or if companies are trying to make a fast buck.

Our second conversation is with Alex Riley, who joined us on talkSPORT to share the details of his TV show, The Car Years. Alex writes and presents with his co-host Vicky Butler Henderson and each week, the two compete to convince a panel of high-profile automotive judges who has the best car. Alex also shares his media journey leading up to this point, including taking a terrifying leap from a safe job to having a go at being a researcher for BBC top gear in the late 1990s.

INTERVIEW TIME STAMPS

- Intro with John and Rachael; 0:00 -17:00

- Ginny Buckley; 17:00 - 33:30

- Alex Riley; 33:30 - 1:05:30

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