A couple of BBC bits

To round off July, I thought I'd catch up with a couple of bits of writing I unexpectedly ended up doing for BBC News Online this month.The first actually resulted, indirectly, from the Mr Pastry piece I did for Secret Norfolk and News Online in June. A man called Philip Yull heard the Pastry episode of Secret Norfolk, found it interesting and emailed the station to ask if we might be interested in another little story from the county's history.This one was from back in 1976, when James Hunt - in the very year he won the Formula One World Championship - had come to Norfolk to take part in a rally, and ended up crashing into a tree... along with his co-driver for the event, Noel Edmonds.I happened to be working when this email dropped into the inbox and immediately thought this might make a Secret Norfolk episode. So not only did I email Philip back to ask if he'd be prepared to have a chat about it, I also decided to take the chance of emailing Noel Edmonds' agent to ask if he would…