Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6040 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-03-16
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 240 minutes

DVD Description

After learning all about wine in the first two series of Oz and James’s Big Wine Adventure, James finally gets to drink a pint (or two) on home soil. The improbable duo travel the length and breadth of the UK, sampling the broad range of booze on offer, on a mission to find the drink that defines Britain.

For their latest adventure, James produces the wonderful combination of a classic Rolls Royce and an appallingly kitsch Sprite caravan from the 1970s. Living in cramped, leaky conditions, the bickering reaches new heights as James discovers that Oz is as knowledgeable about beer, stout, cider, whisky and lager as he is about wine. As James tries to air his knowledge, Oz struggles to keep the upper hand.

Synopsis
TOP GEAR'S James May and FOOD AND DRINK'S Oz Clarke continue their tipple-orientated travelog, this time turning their attention to the beers and local brews of our own fair British Isles.

Customer Reviews

That's that, then...
Good grief, they'll be missed.

What will we do on Tuesdays without Oz and James bickering their way around the UK in a pretty old Rolls Royce Corniche with a rusty old caravan in tow? Series 3 puts much more focus on their relationship - series 1 and 2 put more focus on them as their chemistry became apparent, but Drink to Britian is almost more about them than the plonk, and it. is. awesome.

There are 8 episodes: they travel to all corners of the UK... except negligible attention is paid to Wales, so Welsh viewers may feel a little jipped. They imbibe lashings of beer, buckets of ale, barrels of whiskey, orchards of cider and tanks of English wine (did you even know we have vineyards?)... then they wobble back to the caravan where they talk drunken gubbins into the night.

Oz continues to become increasingly James-like, and James carries on grumbling about wine with bubbles in it and laughing til he coughs up a lung; they meander and weave their way from pub to brewery to whiskey dungeon, all the while cementing their extraordinarily precious friendship.

In the final episode, ensconced in rain slickers and blankets, they sit under the awning outside their caravan on a Dover cliff, surrounded - truly, surrounded - by upwards of a hundred bottles trying to finally decide which drink speaks for Britain. And they choose... well, you'll just need to buy the DVD to find out.

Between all of that and the staggeringly beautiful shots of driving along endless, winding, tree-canopied English country lanes, this is just unmissable tv.

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful sunshine-dappled heaven and they will be missed dreadfully until they return.

Great stuff from TV's Odd Couple
I have just started watching the new series of Oz and James on BBC and can't wait for the DVD. This series just gets better and better especially as it moves away from focussing mainly on wine Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure: Complete BBC Series 1 & 2 Box Set [2006]and concentrates more on the, often hilarious, relationship between Oz Clarke and James May. They seem as suited as the Rolls Royce and caravan that they are travelling around in however somehow they have real chemistry. It is just great to watch.

Old Men Behaving Badly
They've tried the wines of France, they've tried the wines of California. Now their mission is to drink Britain dry. Oz and James, one of the least likely double acts are on tour again. Travelling through Britain and Ireland, where they drink Guinness the intrepid duo are looking for the drink that speaks for Britain. I think we all know what the national drink is, but it is still fun to see these two lovable twits on their quest. Travelling in a Rolls-Royce with a caravan hitched you know that plenty will go wrong. If you have ever seen the episode of One Foot in the Grave, where Victor buys a caravan you will have some idea how this one looks. Problems do indeed occur with this caravan from Hell.

Our old men try wines form this country along with ales and bitter, spurning that girls' drink lager. In scotland they try whiskies and in Ireland they drink Guinness, but because the BBC does not show adverts they decide that they cannot call it by its brand name. On the menu is also perry, vodka and cider; they also try to each brew their own beer.

With a train-ride cum pub crawl, of course these two once again get rather more than merry on numerous occasions. If you want a good laugh, and are interested where drinks are made, how they are made etc. you will enjoy this. Included on this dvd I believe will be some extra scenes that weren't initally shown on the tv series.