Peter Ackroyd's London - 3/3 Water and Darkness

2004 BBC Documentary.
Parts 1 & 2 available here:
• BBC Peter Ackroyd Lond...
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  • @rw2993
    @rw29933 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, I've been waiting for part 3 since the last Roman legions departed Britain.

  • @omalone1169

    @omalone1169

    Жыл бұрын

    19:00 am aad we are watched so much

  • @ianreynolds8552
    @ianreynolds85523 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for putting this on utube !

  • @stillwater62
    @stillwater622 жыл бұрын

    I have watched Part 2 and now watching Part 3. I have noticed several well-known and famous actors in character in both Part2 & 3. This is a very good documentary.

  • @omalone1169

    @omalone1169

    Жыл бұрын

    Still sad to think that in London Pooor he described the people as "savages". Why the east "the dark side associated with poverty and squalor"

  • @cosmicmusicreynolds3266
    @cosmicmusicreynolds32662 жыл бұрын

    Best episode of this series ! On Victorian Britian, it shows the shame of a society which was to treat those who could care for themselves with comtempt ! Society can be judged by the way it treats its most vulnerable !

  • @velvetindigonight
    @velvetindigonight3 жыл бұрын

    Great book and series. Thank you for uploading.

  • @DaveSCameron
    @DaveSCameron Жыл бұрын

    Love you Peter

  • @welshsasquatch6093
    @welshsasquatch60933 жыл бұрын

    Wow!!! I've been waiting so long for this. Thanks so much for uploading! xo

  • @MapleSyrupPoet
    @MapleSyrupPoet3 ай бұрын

    The Brits are my favorite people ...glorious people ...deep, intelligent, ever so interesting ❤❤❤

  • @martincook2497
    @martincook24973 жыл бұрын

    Finally!

  • @vanessawilliams703
    @vanessawilliams7032 жыл бұрын

    Now that ur voice has lulled me to sleep twice, I'm thinking I can watch the entire episode this time! Ur voice doesn't make it easy!💕

  • @MapleSyrupPoet
    @MapleSyrupPoet3 ай бұрын

    Well done 👏 😅

  • @lucianopavarotti2843
    @lucianopavarotti28433 ай бұрын

    @34:36 Tom Hollander evidently has never heard any of the many recordings of Eliot's voice. 🤣

  • @evar1822
    @evar182225 күн бұрын

    Listening to this as I have lived in London and sensed no depth or 'magic' in it. As I intend to stay, I want to find some interesting stuff in it. Mind you, I see museums and galleries but compared to the endearing charm of Yorkshire, that's not much. I need stories I suppose to like a place.

  • @ttacking_you
    @ttacking_you3 ай бұрын

    Boy, you guys REALLY know how to overstate things?

  • @omalone1169
    @omalone1169 Жыл бұрын

    29:20 please when did he say that?

  • @MapleSyrupPoet
    @MapleSyrupPoet3 ай бұрын

    All unclean spirits flee from Vincent ...by the power of Jesus Christ fleeee ...all hexes, curses, and spells fleeee ...part of my prayer 🙏 & meditation routine ...depending on where I am #spiritualintuition 🧖🗣👤👥️👣

  • @MrMHughes68
    @MrMHughes683 жыл бұрын

    37: 37 is eerily prophetic of 7/7.

  • @omalone1169

    @omalone1169

    Жыл бұрын

    He says it is utterly impersonal and says something about the glance earlier too

  • @omalone1169

    @omalone1169

    Жыл бұрын

    38:30 lonely and desolate Earlier used the word Imperonsal

  • @ey67
    @ey678 ай бұрын

    We are just morlocks these days. Accelerating towards a catastrophe for everyone.

  • @MapleSyrupPoet
    @MapleSyrupPoet3 ай бұрын

    East is usually poor area of any city, town ...West, wealthier ...North wealthy ...South, where comedians reside usually 😉😎

  • @cutekanjii
    @cutekanjii Жыл бұрын

    Engles the creator of the greatest evil in history to come out of good intentions but unleashed a monster than devours

  • @ey67

    @ey67

    8 ай бұрын

    Just like predatory capitalism. They are all isms. Depends upon the corruption of human beings the way it plays out. Usually totally corrupt within a short time

  • @RTD3
    @RTD33 жыл бұрын

    Only poets, rich authors and fiction writers have the answers.

  • @cosmicmusicreynolds3266

    @cosmicmusicreynolds3266

    2 жыл бұрын

    That s why we have not got the answer yet

  • @jacklawrence2212

    @jacklawrence2212

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't be ridiculous. They don't have the answers and this doc doesn't suggest they do. They have the vision to ask the questions.

  • @Jungleland33
    @Jungleland332 жыл бұрын

    "Greatest city on earth " lolz.

  • @eem8039

    @eem8039

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly So arrogant Some slums

  • @jacklawrence2212

    @jacklawrence2212

    Жыл бұрын

    The greatest city remark is not an endorsement or an approval of Victorian London. It's a comment on its size, financial power and the reach it had across the world at the time. I'd have thought that from the tone of this documentary this was blindingly obvious.

  • @OneDaveAtaTime
    @OneDaveAtaTime Жыл бұрын

    Sadly his anti establishment and royalist view vastly skew and undermine the accuracy of his findings, interpretations and recordings across much of his work. If you read any Ackroyd work also reference other sources to obtain an informed balance.