My journalist brother texted me the sad news today of Tomas Bata's death at 93. If you have been on the dark side of the moon for the last 5 years you may not know that Mr Bata- the Czech Republic's Bill Gates slash Henry Ford - was at the centre of our Anglo-Czech road movie 'Bata-ville: We are not afraid of the future".
Our passengers and us got to meet the charming and wise Mr Bata - in fact Nina and I gatecrashed his 90th birthday celebrations in Prague Castle - which he took very well. I think it was the uniforms.
There's a good obituary here.
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