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Griff Rhys Jones is visiting London in this episode of The Greatest Cities in the World - and he is discovering some hidden secrets above and underground of this diverse metropolis of the old world.
British comedian Griff Rhys Jones visits six important metropolises of the world, including New York, London, Rome, Paris, Sydney and Hong Kong. He looks into oddities, traditions and hidden secrets, discovering what makes these cities the greatest in the world.
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@TRACKSTravelDocs
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the support! 🥳
When I went to London in 2014 I made a point of visiting the London Stone on Cannon Street. I got the impression that tourists never, ever went there. Not sure why it's so obscure, to me it was fascinating.
I just adore all the old traditions of London that are still kept alive today, would be a poorer city without them!
@piusx8317
2 жыл бұрын
What traditions are those? London is a pit!!
Griff laughing inside the bell tower of London is like witnessing pure, true living experience in my book.
In 1967 I walked up to the front door of #10, Downing Street. I was 17 yr old. There was a policeman there but he didn't stop me from knocking on the door. There was no answer to my knock....oh well.
@dogstar5572
2 жыл бұрын
I did this. Kids are fearless. Not now though.
@thatmarchingarrow
2 жыл бұрын
@@dogstar5572 Nowadays you can't even approach, as the entirety of Downing Street is fenced off.
@tomhermens7698
Жыл бұрын
@Dogstar me too and I have not ever forgotten it. Parked just inside the gates!!
I Love London.
I absolutely love the way our guide and narrator keeps cracking up, even with the ringing of the bells of Big Ben, his happy mood is contagious ☺
@ashotofmercury
2 жыл бұрын
Sorry to be that person, but Big Ben is actually the bell. 😉🤭
Griff Rhys Jones is simply brilliant.
Grew up in London always amazing a glittering diamond at night 😇🙏💎💍💎🎉🎊❤️👋
Visited the British museum on marathon weekend. Wow! Spent all day in there and only saw half of the exhibits. Its a world history and culture museum. From dinosaur fossils to Roman antiquities. Amazing and free.
@angelicamimosa
2 жыл бұрын
Subsidized by us tax payers and you visitors if you leave some cash in the contribution box by the door😉 Nothing is ‘Free’!
@paulhank7967
2 жыл бұрын
@@angelicamimosa National gallery is free too. And the only things that people get free, are what politicians get in brown envelopes. That's how it works. Whatever system you live under. Democracy though, has proved that wars are less infrequent and the skulls don't stack up as quickly. Oppressive regimes are otherwise. Myanmar for example.
@JanBanJoovi-ol1qv
10 ай бұрын
Highly doubt you would see half of british museum in one day. Been there many times and haven’t been able to explore much. Except offcourse if you’re just passing by quickly through the exhibits and not actually internalizing. I on the other hand internalize on each exhibit that interests me. Making me wanna come back for more.
@paulhank7967
10 ай бұрын
@@angelicamimosa I'm 61 and have been taxed, taxed and taxed since I was 16. The free entry has been earned.
I love London. I always stay in Southwark as close to the Thames as possible. That's my hood. Love Borough Market. Love The Queen's Walk.
@fredarcher7264
2 жыл бұрын
' That's my hood.' A true Cockney expression lol .
@VictorRochaGaming
2 жыл бұрын
@@fredarcher7264 I'm from California
Just loved it! London Stone. Have to go and find!
Fantastic and well presented documentary. Well done. Thanks for sharing
My family is from the UK, and now, more than ever, I must visit! Griff's tour was wonderful!
@Jhossack
2 жыл бұрын
Pack a lunch- they have no food or petrol
@angelicamimosa
2 жыл бұрын
This is an Old depiction of London; The buildings are the same but their use may not be and now 2nd year of the Pandemic and post Brexit it’s got some serious issues!
@johnbrereton5229
2 жыл бұрын
@@Jhossack Nonsense ! I live in London and we have plenty of food and petrol and anything else your heart desires.
@prepperjonpnw6482
2 жыл бұрын
I’ll be returning to visit family in spring 2022 and my family has plenty of food and petrol lol
Is it just me or does Griff Rhys Jones remind me of an old Hugh Grant in this?
@whitrobinson
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, he does!
charming host for a charming discovery of THE fascinating London city! A moment of pleasure thank you.
A wonderful love letter to a great city.
14:30 - ohhhh, darrrrlings. Ones so wealthy we ride to our exercise. Who else remembers when the pubs used to close after lunch and open for evening trade?? Imagine going back to those days.... 😁🇬🇧🙏🏼
@seamus6149
2 жыл бұрын
I remember well , I lived in London in the 70's and I never really got used to that .
@DMWBN3
2 жыл бұрын
@@seamus6149 I’m 49 & wasn’t really a drinker until 22ish, it’s funny thinking back, it was always fascinating to someone’s home, then back to pub when opens again.
Another great travel video & thoroughly enjoyable.......thanks Griff......you're a fantastic tour guide for us armchair travelers!
Such a fascinating city!!!
@honeydate
2 жыл бұрын
It truly is - I can't imagine living anywhere else!
At 3:15. I used to live in London for roughly a year. I was maybe a 10 minute walk from Smithfield Market. It was such a lovely structure. I was always curious as to why it was closed/abandoned every single time I went by it. NOW do I finally learn that it was a night-time place and closed up shop during the day. That explains a lot...
Sitting on the beer bench to test it has got to be the highlight of this video...fine funny stuff!!!
@nilo70
2 жыл бұрын
So since Elizabeth they have sat on a bench wet with beer in leather pants ? Kinky!
This was truly fascinating!
Smithfield market is awesome! lol especially early in the morning when it’s super busy.
Well done! Well done indeed!!
I enjoyed this video a lot. I'm from British stock, as a Canadian, and love seeing stories about the hidden parts of any city, especially London.
It is heartbreaking to see our once wonderful country as it is now. And still the boats come.
I was curious: this was originally aired in October 2008, according to IMdB.
I love to visit London but I’m afraid those days are gone. Thanks you for this wonderful video
That was amazing
Really good this
I just love the choice of music! It's Very epic and dramatic!
Thank you.
watching form New Zealand
Let's hear it for the London Welsh , huge community , but low profile. Well done Griff. More than dairies, teachers, police, singers and rugby players , though that's part of it too. Diolch yn fawr iawn 🏴
This is so cool to hear the history, and this has interesting facts.
I spent many enjoyable years engineering-tunnels under London and drinking-in it's culture
so good
Remarkable
Really enjoyed Griffs enthusiasm in this doco haha
The bit he didn't mention is that the bulk of the entire worlds commodity and shipping trade happens in London. Almost every physical thing you use or eat was traded in raw material form or transported on a ship traded, contracted, or insured through London at some stage on its way to you.
@obscurazone
2 жыл бұрын
And the bit you didnt mention, is that billions (if not trillions) of pounds sterling is washed or squirreled offshore through The City each year, including through commercial banks headquartered there. Its a den of corruption, always has been, hence the desperate rush to " Get Brexit Done" before the EU brought in sweeping reforms.
A great city👍
Hi Griff thank you for the video....but...you did not show us the dead center of London...for your info if you imagine you are leaning on the Balustrade looking down on Trafalgar square..then take your hands off the Balustrade and walk to your right about fifty paces you will come upon a black circle about 18 inches in diameter and a meter or so from the Balustrade..that's it.....as an apprentice joiner in the sixties i was tasked to find this spot.
we flew on a new 747 with a piano bar in the 1970s to England and I need to do it again. it is too bad the Concord is not flying anymore.
@ek7593
2 жыл бұрын
ottopuppy: Lucky you :)
What the hell is going on in the background at 15:01 lol
The British are unpopular in Europe today due to recent history, but the same spirit that caused us to insist on our independence is the spirit that saved Europe in 1940, no deals , no agreements, if Britain was to go down she was to go down with her guns firing like a Royal Navy ship. And miracle of miracles the free world coalesce around this stubborn streak and Europe was saved by the bravery of all peoples and the aid of friends abroad. Best wishes to all who wish us well.
God's gifted city= London
@fredarcher7264
2 жыл бұрын
Have you been to London recently ? As a Londoner I can tell you that it has become an absolute dump .
Wonderful. But I wonder, you didn't mention Shakespeare not even once in your video. Even though theater was mentioned/visited by you.
Amazing & interesting in a completely different way than my city- the holy city Jerusalem.
@ziggyplay
2 жыл бұрын
For sure, today deeply fanatical and "holy" places in the world are completely different in 2021. Priorities and the focus should be on the environment and human relationships, and not keep praying to heaven based on medieval stories that were created when man did not even know what a cloud was.
@Joshisboss02
2 жыл бұрын
@@ziggyplay Such an insightful take
This should be called "How people who don't live in London think London is like"
History
a great insight into London and some amazing places you never knew existed...Griff is a great tour guide and gets up to some amazing tricks...just a pity now that London has become the capital of knife crime murders...
@stmark4181
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly WHERE do these knife crime murders happen?
@rutter1ify
3 жыл бұрын
I blame mass flooding
Please tell me what is that music from 43.25. I can't find it and it's just so uplifting.
@Jeans202
2 жыл бұрын
It's called "Now we are Free" from The Gladiator Soundtrack.
I think any man that got to drive a crane that hire would have gave the same smile
At 11.05, why do they have an illegal fire extinguisher on the bracket? Great video.
19:31-19:35 location where please ? Near Furnival Street, Holborn, but more main road?
At 12:39. I lived in Beijing, China. Most would be surprised to find out that the Chinese are not that different from the British. Most of the politics go on there behind closed doors, away from the prying eyes of the public, in a palace complex taken over by the Communists called Zhongnanhai. This area is a collection of sumptuous garden palaces and temples that the Qing Emperors built along these artificial lakes Khublai Khan had constructed right to the west of the Forbidden City. Whereas the Forbidden City itself is now a museum open to the public, the Zhongnanhai complex is now maybe the scariest spot in China. No one goes there. That's where all the big honchos of the Communist Party have their head offices. When they make big decisions in Zhongnanhai, those decisions are then rubber-stamped by the National People's Congress in a giant hall on Tiananmen Square. But everyone knows the real center of power is Zhongnanhai.
London is an amazing city, innit?
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
I wonder where the BT tunnels are, I bet them people got a shock when Griff walked in to that tube walkway
@robclark4626
2 жыл бұрын
I worked in that very place for several years. Entrance in High Holborn, down in the lift then over a quarter of a mile walk to my workplace.
I was watching a different program that showed a rock in the wall of a store framed and behind thick glass that was supposedly where all distances are measured from. Now this guy says it’s a statue that’s where everything is measured from. So who do I believe? Well time to check out Joolz Guides KZread channel and see what he says lol
@edwardoleyba3075
3 жыл бұрын
It was supposed to be from the ‘Eleanor Cross’ in the forecourt at Charing Cross Station as far as I know.
@christineaygin6701
2 жыл бұрын
@@edwardoleyba3075 I think the measurement is taken from the Monument ....... 5 miles to London etc
Anyone able to tell me that beautiful haunting music at the end? I know it but don't know where from. It starts at about 43 minutes in. I think it was used in gladiator. It's hans Zimmer now we are free from gladiator soundtrack. Sorry it's been bugging me all night.
@gledhillchris
2 жыл бұрын
"Now We Are Free" (song), a 2000 song of Lisa Gerrard, from the Hans Zimmer soundtrack, of the Ridley Scott film Gladiator.
i read somewhere that Big Ben is the name of the bell, not the name of the tower or clock
I love London ✌️💜🙏👍❌⭕️❌🇨🇦👸
Where is the church where Griff is ringing the bell?
My you are fit to do all that!
Makes you proud to be English!
Gryff looks the same as he did in Alas Smith & Jones!
What the hell is going in at 15:02?? funniest thing I’ve ever seen!
@paulm2467
Жыл бұрын
That is seriously weird, a pushing contest in front of some boys in uniform underwear?
I have become near comatose many a time in the Butlers
I feel the need to make a correction of sorts. There were people living in the area we now call London long before the Romans showed up. Yes they gave it the name Londinium but they weren’t the first people to live there. Just sayin. Cheers
Why does this have parts of the 'You've got mail' score on it?
@elainebines6803
2 жыл бұрын
Could bee from the computer don't quote me on that though
For seconds i thought he is someone who says " order " 😂
yoo he got the harry potter accent. we gonna do some magic tonight boys!
I think Bruce is a god too.
Bambi!
Happy 😊 Halloween 🎃 and 1 November. 2021.kizz fra Ane Johanna Skintveit
Watching, and enjoying this, post Brexit, I wonder how far down the pecking order the City has now fallen.
@wanwandokko
2 жыл бұрын
Depends how far your mayor wants to go?
he still missed a lot Lonndon has to offer. London never sleeps ny the way.
@arriesone1
2 жыл бұрын
Well he can’t include everything in 45 minutes.
Not sure why it's called Secret London when he visits all the big clichés.
@bobelliott2748
2 жыл бұрын
like the sewers
We need a pay raise we need to balance ⚖️ things
Contemporary Art is like betting on your horse to win.
2008-2008 I reckon?
I love seeing London and all it's history. Visiting is another matter. It's overpopulated so people are like rats in a sewer and most are too busy rushing around to notice anything around them. I'm always happy to leave and wouldn't live there if you paid me.
@julieheywood8832
2 жыл бұрын
were not offering.
I would LOVE to live in England/Scotland. I love who America used to be, but my nation is no more. We are literally destroying our history and these kids will not stop.
This is my Capital, and obviously pre-Brexit/Covid. Today, the scenes on the street won't get much busier during the day than they were at 7am.
The golden egg was well sad
15:02 what the hell was going on there????
If London's financial city is the hart of London, it's a very very cold hart
@paulm2467
Жыл бұрын
It’s too deer?
23:18 Beer 🍺 ! Is this documentary of 2007? 38:55 Foolishness at extreme
I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.' F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Not a true representation of London atall. He makes you feel everyone knows each other and everyone is so friendly.
Um....why would you carpet the Albert Hall with....oh. Never mind. I wouldn't give you a nickel for the egg with the wholes in it.
A carpet of meat would be interesting
this guy still says peking. incredible
CITY OF LONDON///OR THE OTHER LONDON/////
No one should have to Walk unless they want
All pre-Brexit and pre-Covid, of course.
I lived in London 5 years not so long ago. I can’t imagine it with no heat food or petrol as in October 2021.
@anitaevans2432
2 жыл бұрын
Silly exaggeration!
Lads wtaf is happening at 15:02