Show Notes
After eight months away, James, Ant and Will are back at The Radiator Arms — catching up on what’s changed, what they’ve been driving, and where the last year has taken them.
The main conversation picks up the story behind James’s recent trip to Ukraine, where he joined a Driving Ukraine convoy in a 1963 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III. There’s plenty that didn’t make the original video: mechanical problems, border confusion, an unexpected encounter with the Ukrainian Secret Service, and the strange reality of travelling through a country where normal life continues alongside war.
It’s a conversation about the people James met, what the donated vehicles are actually being used for, the reaction to the original video, and whether doing something that feels small can still make a meaningful difference. Serious in places, funny in others, and inevitably distracted by broken cars, Polish sausages, AK-47-shaped vodka and seasoned lard.
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