Today guest editors review – Radio 4 dishes up eggs over uneasy with Goulding, Kureishi and James May
Christmas tradition dictates unqualified celebrities edit the flagship news show for five days, with results as skippable – and occasionally tasty – as festive leftovers
November 2023
Andrew Malkinson, wrongly convicted of rape, to guest edit BBC’s Today
Miscarriage of justice victim will be among programme’s Christmas editors which also include Hanif Kureishi and James May
May 2022
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
S3 E1: James May, broadcaster
Grace Dent is back for third helpings of Comfort Eating, and her first guest of the season is James May, co-presenter of The Grand Tour
August 2021
Kitchen nightmares: do we need more celebrity cooking shows?
The release of Paris Hilton’s Netflix series where she semi-cooks semi-dishes is the latest in an increasing trend of stars spending more time in the kitchen
July 2021
The Grand Tour: Lochdown review – Clarkson, May and Hammond drive Scotland out of the union
The patriarchy’s Cheeky Girls bumble their way through a bants-filled Highlands holiday, leaving carnage – and surely a spike in support for Scottish independence – in their wake
January 2021
The bed office
Duvet or don't they? Why Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen loves working from bed – and Glenda Jackson doesn't
Many more of us are conducting our business in bed. Keeley Hawes and Jeremy Paxman explain the benefits, while Lady Warsi and David Lammy are unimpressed
November 2020
TV review
James May: Oh Cook review – will this be a culinary car crash?
Can’t cook, will cook! This new series sees the Grand Tour presenter aim to brush up on his kitchen skills – all the while assuring us of his ineptitude
January 2020
James May: Our Man in Japan review – penis festivals are no place for jokes!
The ex-Top Gear star reveals rarer sides of Japanese culture in this travelogue – but why won’t he just quit the gags and be his true, highbrow self?
December 2019
TV review
The Grand Tour review – Clarkson’s banter dads are on a sinking ship
The wheels have fallen off Amazon’s Top Gear rehash, as the trio swap land for sea in a cringe-inducing Asia special
January 2019
A listless army of zombie lads: why The Grand Tour’s studio audience had to go
The blokey studio segments were always the lowlights of Clarkson, May and Hammond’s motoring shows. Without them, they might actually be fun to watch again
October 2018
Former Top Gear stars' firm nets £7.6m profit from Amazon show
Chump Holdings paid nearly as much UK corporation tax as the digital giant last year
September 2018
Jump the shark
Top Gear: how the BBC behemoth became car crash TV
Once drawing 350m viewers worldwide, by 2013 the show was filled with absurd fakery, casual bigotry and general overproduced bloatedness
February 2017
The Grand Tour finale: here's what the series got right – and very wrong
The first season of the Clarkson-May-Hammond reboot has passed the chequered flag. So was there more to it than supercars and sub-pub banter?
December 2016
TV review
Jonathan Creek review – suitably silly, scary, arch and pleased with itself
TV tonight
Wednesday’s best TV: Jonathan Creek; James May: the Christmas Reassembler
November 2016
The Grand Tour viewing figures are a mystery to us, say show's stars
Jeremy Clarkson says reports Amazon paid $160m or $250m for three series of the motoring show are ‘nonsense’
The Grand Tour: can Jeremy Clarkson and his cronies keep up the pace?
The first episode arrived with a big bang, but the second was the real test. How did it stack up? There was too much filler – but at least Clarkson’s trousers fell down
Grand Tour de force justifies Amazon's faith in unshackled former Top Gear trio
