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iwarburton



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PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2007 11:51 am    Post subject: History a la Marr Reply with quote

Is anyone else watching Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain, shwoing at 9pm on Tuesdays on BBC2?

I've got completely hooked on it. This week's episode, the second out of five, reviewed the period between 1955 and 1964. It considered at some length Suez, Polaris, the Profumo affair and our initial failure to secure membership of the Common Market and briefly added some other aspects. And there was a fair sprinking of Marr bon mots, too.

Can't wait to see what he makes of Harold Wilson and co in the next episode.

Ian.
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PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2007 12:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was jolly interesting, although just a quick skim over the surface of most of the events, it was good to see what was going on just before I was born. The next episode covers my early years( well not mine) but what was going on while I was young. It might just answer a few questions and jog a memory or two.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Last nights episode makes you realise how good things are at the moment by comparison. Still people are quick to forget & take bthings for granted.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was good last night. King Arthur!. Very Happy 3 day week! - and all those old folk say how hard they had it back then! - I have to work 5 days a week! Wink next week it's the Thatcher years - looking forward to that one:)
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Marr was a bit churlish about the 80's last night. Obviously as an ex-editor of the Independent he would be challenged in giving an impartial view of the period. However his closing monologue did at least convey the truth that Britain changed dramatically in the 1980's and that in terms of post WW2 history the years can be divided roughly into 45-83 and post 83 and that the way we live today was basically moulded in the 80's. For all her critics nobody has remotely come close to receiving any mandate from the electorate since 1990 for reversing the changes Thatcher made in the way the country is run.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rachel wrote:
It was good last night. King Arthur!. Very Happy 3 day week! - and all those old folk say how hard they had it back then!


The trouble is that a lot of employers paid their employees for a 3-day week, and when people realised that the bills still had to paid the novelty soon wore off.

Rachel wrote:
next week it's the Thatcher years - looking forward to that one:)


I'm not. The memories are still very real. I think I'll do something less depressing than watch that programme.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

firewirefred wrote:
I'm not. The memories are still very real. I think I'll do something less depressing than watch that programme.


It was on last night & you needn't fear. Marr's an old Labour lovie like you Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gfloyd wrote:
Marr's an old Labour lovie like you Wink


I'm not an old labour lovie.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

firewirefred wrote:
gfloyd wrote:
Marr's an old Labour lovie like you Wink


I'm not an old labour lovie.


Which bit of my description do you object to? Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gfloyd wrote:
firewirefred wrote:
gfloyd wrote:
Marr's an old Labour lovie like you Wink


I'm not an old labour lovie.


Which bit of my description do you object to? Smile


I'm not old. I'm not a "lovie" (whatever that is) and I'm not a member of the Labour Party.

Hope that helps. Next question?
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