Life in Beckworth » James May http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth Bringing you the (almost) everyday comings and goings of the residents of Beckworth, a typical English market town. Informing you about their lives through the mediums of words, images, an interactive map and stereophonic sound recordings Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:56:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Do You Know A Good Hangover Cure Brian Cox? http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/prof-brian-cox/do-you-know-a-good-hangover-cure-brian-cox/ http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/prof-brian-cox/do-you-know-a-good-hangover-cure-brian-cox/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:01:15 +0000 a resident of Beckworth http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/?p=4681 Continue reading →]]> Hello to all my devoted followers and my beloved hairdresser. Beautiful Professor Brian here to answer your New Year’s question “Is There A Cure For A Hangover?” I’ll keep this brief as for some unknown reason i’ve got a really bad headache and a bout of nausea… When our prehistoric ancestors invented alcohol as a way of forgetting their woes (noisy dinosaurs flattening their mud huts, mammoths eating the family etc) they accidentally gave the world the hangover. For millennia cultures have searched for an elusive remedy… But after 3 or 4 weeks of non-stop hands-on research on behalf of all humankind I’ve discovered that the best cure for a hangover is (drum roll please while i flick my luscious fringe)… to just carry on drinking through the next day… and the next.

So, in the spirit of scientific discovery I’m rushing off to meet my close friends from Top Gear in the wine bar for a shandy or three. Thanks, Prof Brian Cox.

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(Above) Professor Cox’s drinking buddy Clarky Clarkson gets the first round in earlier today, who alongside Andy Hamster and Jimmy May are researching hangovers

]]> http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/prof-brian-cox/do-you-know-a-good-hangover-cure-brian-cox/feed/ 0 Top Gear’s Snowy Adventure Seen Filming Outside Town http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/dick-van-preston/top-gears-snowy-adventure-filming-in-town/ http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/dick-van-preston/top-gears-snowy-adventure-filming-in-town/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:44:58 +0000 a resident of Beckworth http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/?p=3123 Continue reading →]]> I’ve just seen the presenters and crew of telly’s Top Gear programme filming one of their overseas adventures here in Beckworth. Little Andy Hamilton aka “Hamster” was riding a steam powered sledge through fake snow as he raced Jeremy Clarkson on snowshoes and James May on a makeshift snowboard. A woman with a clipboard told me that due to BBC cost-cutting the town is “standing in” for Italy, and the local slag heaps were meant to be the Alps. From where i was standing they looked pretty realistic if not a bit small.  Dick van Preston

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(Above) The presenters of TV’s Top Gear programme count their wages during a break from filming earlier today

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