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World's Most Dangerous Roads review: Rhod Gilbert's a natural literary wit - give that man a book deal! writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Rhod Gilbert has a turn of phrase that makes him the natural successor to literary wits such as Tom Sharpe.

He has a turn of phrase that makes him the natural successor to literary wits such as Tom Sharpe, as he demonstrated between avalanches of swearing on World’s Most Dangerous Roads (Dave). Tackling the Alpine passes of northern Italy in a Land Rover with his pal the comedian Angela Barnes, Rhod declared the steep track — rocks on one side, sheer drop on the other — had ‘more hairpins than an episode of Corrie’. Someone evidently tipped off the Mbendjele that Ben was coming, because they met him on the rainforest path with songs and dancing that built in a deafening crescendo until, arriving at the village, he was overwhelmed by people in grass skirts beating drums and falling about with laughter.

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