Maybe fair enough to say that Jeff, and thus I'm surprised that he had time in his busy schedule to travel to Ballaspur with Mr Boorman and explain in detail exactly what happened in the accident!! Just how long did that take out of his day? Well TV companies don't do anything in 10 minutes. And he if wished to be disassociated with the minutiae of the programme, then he could have made a choice.
My r/h man came in this morning, and said exactly the same as me, i.e. "what's that doing on BBC TV?" He doesn't know Richard,and has no axe to grind. I too have no axe to grind, I just think that this sequence was best left out of the programme, and he is a paid employee of the DTL,(I believe) and thus ill advised to "promote" the TT in this way. I think you will find that quite a few will share my opinion, and that's all it is, an opinion.