Alongside a well-merited outpouring of affection for the actor himself, message boards heaved with praise for his signature sitcom, The Good Life, about a couple who garden their way out of the rat race ("a great programme"; "exceptional TV").
"From Jon's perspective, he comes from a track-based programme which had a lot of active racing to a programme where this year's main focus is the Road World Championships in Canada in September and some Road World Cup races, but they are pretty small events," he admitted.
Adrian is clearly not the retiring type and when he was introduced to the Caterham Academy – a race programme where a novice racing driver can build their own road-legal sports car to compete over seven races – he leapt at the chance.
Congress could lay out a framework for the 2016 presidential race by advancing a programme of tax reform, energy policy, border security and healthcare, he says.
The proposals also include a revamped race programme and race regulations including new classes for Formula 1 and Formula 2 machines from the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Prince Charles, who is pictured holding a racing programme, wears a top hat and morning coat.
I was recording a programme about Race which, when broadcast, was edited beyond recognition.
Tom Scudamore, Thistlecrack's jockey, enjoyed a spectacular ride to his first victory in the feature event of the Christmas racing programme, a race his grandfather Michael won as a jockey in 1956 but always eluded his father Peter, who was National Hunt's champion jockey eight times.
There will also be a programme to deliver race equality in mental health services and new programmes to give people more choice in the services they receive and greater access to psychological therapies.
Celebration and colour certainly sounds like the right territory for Chapman, who is achieving his lifetime's ambition in becoming part of a racing programme on one of the main channels.
