The Gardeners' World Blog

This weekend MotoGP is taking us to France and the historic Le Mans circuit, a place probably more famous for car racing than bikes. The good news is that after all the behind the scenes drama in Shanghai, Suzi Perry is much better and will be presenting our coverage from France.

We’d arrived in China for the last round and all was fine, but by race day Suzi was running a high temperature and had a nasty throat infection - so there was no possibility of her doing the show. It’s the first programme she’s ever missed through illness in her career at the BBC and she was really upset.

In her absence the rest of the team rallied round on Sunday morning to get us on air, we had just three hours to completely rewrite the show and get the necessary pictures to London.