Richard Wilson has been driving around Britain – in the driving seat of a nostalgic BBC4 documentary series, Britain’s Best Drives. Sitting behind the wheel of half a dozen classic cars (like a latterday Toad, minus the leather gauntlets), he’s journeyed back into “the golden age of motoring”.

A pea-green and crean VW campervan is one of the stars of the show although he too found the gear change problematic “I’ve gone into reverse,” he hisses, spitting out the words like tin tacks and sounding exactly like Victor Meldrew, that rasping wrinkly of One Foot in the Grave with whom the actor is fated to be for ever identified.

Read more in The Scotsman

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Interview-Richard-Wilson.4855667.jp

Perhaps Richard Wilson would have enjoyed his VW camper van experience more with some travelling companions

http://www.vwcampersforever.com/travels-with-vw-campers/vw-camper-travel-with-gertrude-and-molly

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