Mr Toad's Rollicking Romanian Adventure ; (1)Whizzing Along 1,800 Miles of Motorway and Dirt Track, Gub Neal Rode His Trusty Old Bmw Through Seven Countries in 72 Hours to Film the New Tv Version of the Wind in the Willows...(2)Review

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FOR the past five years I've flitted back and forth between London and Romania. As a TV producer, I've been making use of the country's competitive labour rates and budding film facilities to shoot classic titles such as Boudicca with Alex Kingston, Sweeney Todd with Ray Winstone and, most recently, The Wind In The Willows with Matt Lucas and Bob Hoskins.

When I was given this last commission to produce Kenneth Grahame's bucolic idyll for the BBC and realised I would be going back east again, I decided to fulfil one of my fantasies and head out by motorbike.

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Mr Toad's Rollicking Romanian Adventure ; (1)Whizzing Along 1,800 Miles of Motorway and Dirt Track, Gub Neal Rode His Trusty Old Bmw Through Seven Countries in 72 Hours to Film the New Tv Version of the Wind in the Willows...(2)Review

I barely had three days to make the 1,800-mile trip. So, while the cast and production team packed their bags and sorted out the cat-minder, I was to be belting manically across seven countries in order to arrive before filming started.

Aware that this is the sort of stupidity middle-aged, divorced media executives are prone to, I mounted my ove...

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