Wood and Walters a later Wood creation 'Kitty' (as played by Patricia Routledge). Rik Mayall also appeared in a one-off monologue as a chauvinistic feminist called Mitch, filling a similar guest slot as he had with Kevin Turvey in the sketch show "A Kick Up the Eighties". Another alternative comedy innovator to appear on the show was John Dowie, who had already toured with Wood in 1978. Wood's view of the series was "Some bits of it were good, some deadly". Around this time, Wood made a weekly musical appearance in the BBC Radio 2 show "The Little and Large Party", narrated an
Oliver Turvey CRS Racing, competing alongside Andrew Kirkaldy and Alvaro Parente in a McLaren MP4-12C GT3. Turvey joined Gary Paffett as a test driver for McLaren for the 2012 Formula One season. In 2013 Turvey stepped up from GTs to Sports Prototypes by signing a deal with Jota Sport to race their LMP2 Zytek Z11SN-Nissan in the 2013 European Le Mans Series season and selected rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship, including the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans. Turvey qualified on pole position and won his first start in the car, at the opening rain-shortened ELMS round at Silverstone. In