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"Tales from a very minor celebrity"

Is it possible for someone with very little self confidence and who is also very shy to go on to become a radio and TV presenter?…Hosting their own live radio show, interviewing royals, Oscar winning actors and musical superstars as well as hosting shows in front of 20,000 people and even moving to another country to start a new career….Well I’m here to tell you that it is, because I did just that. My name is Simon Baldock and this podcast is called, “Tales from a very minor celebrity”….this is the story of how I overcame my insecurities and shyness and went on to have a 35 year career in broadcasting both in the UK and in Spain. You’ll hear some of my most memorable celebrity interviews and all the adventures I’ve had both in the UK and Spain and the stories behind them…like the time I delivered half a carcass of beef to Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street! “Tales from a very minor celebrity”, a weekly podcast from me Simon Baldock.

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My Favourite Interviews - Ford GT 40

October 27, 2022 • Simon Baldock / Ford GT 40 • Season 2 • Episode 4

Hi everyone, and welcome to episode 4 of this new season of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity, a delve into my celebrity archive and a look back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV…. and as I always say I hope you will like listening to them as much as I did recording them.

Now this week my guest is not so much flesh and blood, but rather metal and oil…whilst working at a radio station in Essex I had the pleasure of being invited to do some very nice things…and a lot of the invites came from Ford…

Some of the things I was invited to were the launch of one of the company’s new transit van models, not that exciting you may think until I tell you that the launch was held in Spain, and 13 media types were flown over there in a specially chartered jet and spent a very pleasant two days driving around Jarez

I was also invited to to the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Shakespeare Theatre in London as well.

But on this particular occasion I was invited to drive one of the iconic Ford GT 40’s around the test track at Warley. It had been set up to celebrate the company’s launch of their new version of the GT 40 which we also had a go in, but it was the original that I really wanted to experience.

The Ford GT40 is a high-performance endurance racing car commissioned by the Ford. It grew out of the "Ford GT" (for Grand Touring) in an effort to compete in European long-distance races, against Ferrari, which won the prestigious Le Mans 24 Hour Race race from 1960 - 65. Ford succeeded with the GT40, winning the 1966 through 1969 races. The film Ford v Ferrari starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale is an excellent look back at that period in Fords racing history.

So join me as I have a trip of a lifetime in my dream car, the Ford GT 40

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