Brilliant documentary. I was a regular visitor to the tricorn centre, so sad to see it demolished. It definitely had a functional value to it that was ignored simply because of, as meades states, taste. It seems that some of the latter commenters here either weren’t paying attention to the narrative or are, through being convinced of the validity of their own tastes, too jaded to accept the arguments put forward.

welp i guess werner got to use up his leftover found footage and outsider music. i like dourif, but it was so lazy and annoying to make him the lead and playing up his annoying cali accent and mannerisms. if you have a big screen tv just turn the sound off, go about your housework & take a look at the images now and then.

He made up that stuff about the finch-singers, the underwear museum and the penguin man - surely?

Loved this series, particularly the Aberdeen episode (I studied there and it's very nostalgic for me).

Precies op mijn 🐸

This was a fascinating documentary and I feel like sharing some of my anecdotal experiences; I am Left Handed, the only one in my immediate family, I was never diagnosed with dyslexia but certain parts of my childhood now make so much more sense as I, even though being able to read and speak, rarely opted to speak till I was 4, instead opting for visual representation or enactment of what I was trying to say. For instance, when asked what my elder sibling was doing, instead of replying that he's asleep, I'd fall to the floor and act that he was asleep. I am fluent in reading and writing, as well as speech. I have done a little public speaking as well and It seems to come naturally to me (apart from a little stage fright on the initial couple instances), though sometimes (and very rarely) I do have trouble speaking certain words that I have fluently spoken in the past countless times. I have also been relatively good with 3D visualisation, about how objects and shapes would look like when frame of reference is rotated, or at an angle, or combination of both, to the extent that I can see a shape and image it from any frame of reference in a 3D space. I just assumed it's natural for everyone to do so but found out that it wasn't the case when I grew up and interacted with other people. Also, though not explored further in the documentary due to lack of means to prove it, I do believe I am somewhat more "intuitive" than my peers as I just seem to arrive at right answers (generally) and find it very simple to do so but would never be able to explain my precise reasoning behind it, only being able to sort of explain some allied concepts at play but not how they link together in my mind to give me the answer. It's like just knowing that 2+2=4 but not being able to explain why the mathematical operator works only in that specific way to give you the result. This has also led to some frustration as in college I would be annoyed at why the professor is spending so much time on explaining something that is just "inherently true" rather than focusing on areas where students need their guidance, wondering why my peers are unable to grasp the concept at hand and require explanation from multiple viewpoints to make them understand. From a family background point of view, my paternal side has a history of rheumatoid arthritis, including my Grandma and my Father though thankfully I don't seem to affected, or at least none of the symptoms have appeared as of now (I am in my mid 20s). I also don't fall sick very often, but somehow like clockwork in the past 10 years out of 12 I have fallen sick around a particular time of the year, the only time I'd be down with a high fever though that said, It seems I am a little sensitive in my nose and would wake up in my morning with a bad case of sneeze for a couple of hours before it goes back to normal, or when there's too much oregano on the pizza. I have deduced that the former usually happens when the Air Conditioner has been blowing cold air on my head for the entire night so I am not really sure if that even classifies as being more prone to allergies. During COVID, at multiple instances I happened to find myself in close proximity to those who were tested for positive for COVID but test after test, I was always somehow negative; even before I was vaccinated. All of these are of course, anecdotal and really in the grand scheme of things, unimportant to the nature of scientific study on the subject but the documentary just seems to explain certain things about my life such as family history of auto-immune diseases, being good at 3D visualisation and intuition, or sometimes struggle to speak a certain word that I have fluently spoken countless times before even if I consider myself to be fluent in reading and writing. Perhaps it's just conformational bias, perhaps there's actually a kernel of truth in this hypothesis. I hope Science is able to figure it out someday and explain why 1/10th of the population is left handed since eons if there isn't any advantage to it, and why 9/10th are right handed if there isn't any disadvantages to being left handed.

Hello Godburn, would you be interested in including this upload by me in your Meades playlist? It's a short slot he did about Barcelona in 1985, perhaps his first appearance on TV. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqLSkJmtl6ilaac

Thanks Godburn.

Food is something most protestants feel guilty about. Denial still permeates our culture, the stuff we shove in our bodies points to a collective self-loathing. Britain incredibly uses the words wicked and sinful to describe chocolate. The paradox is that for all our grim pragmatism about food and our antipathy to it's pleasurable potential, we in this country suffer the highest incidence in western Europe of dietethically derived illnesses, and we're rapidly catching up with the United States of America , which is world leader, we eat negligently, we choose to eat that way, we don't suffer droughts or famine or crop failures, we suffer on the contrary the consequences of plenty, circulatory and cardiac diseases, cancer, diabetes and most manifestly obesity, this is something I have knowledge of having been diagnosed as morbidly obese. It was that morbid that prompted me to do something about it , and it's something that you have to do yourself, no amount of governmental propoganda from defra death row, the food commission from the health and safety executive, can persuade us. Indeed the incidence of dietary related diseases, that seems to increase in direct proportion to the amount of health policing that we're subjected to.

Colin Dent. Every effing time.

Sometimes Meades has a truly breathtaking genius. This film is visionary.

I’m the right-handed daughter of a left-handed identical twin father. When he and his brother, my uncle, were young, they were forced to write righthandedly, but while my uncle did as he was told, my father refused. Consequently, my dad had beautiful handwriting, and my uncle’s was terrible. They always worked in similar jobs, always at the same place: first at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and, when it closed, they both switched to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. So they both moved from New York to New Jersey, to the same town, and to houses half a block from each other on the same street. My younger brother is a leftie; while I was always considered the “smart” child, my brother had difficulty in the tightly controlled school environment. I am autistic (Asperger’s syndrome), while my brother is not. But his career path was much more creative than mine, and he and I had different, yet close, relationships with our dad. And when our dad and our uncle retired, they both moved to the same state and - of course - to the same retirement community. The twins had some slight divergences in career paths, with my uncle being less of a creative sort and more on the bureaucratic side. Guess who had the higher income.

good documentary , one thing that is false? Bin laden didn’t drop the twin towers, it was an inside job 🥊

Would have been a cool free flow montage except for all the fake scientists . . or maybe that was the point

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I forgot how amazing the music in this was.

I'm left handed, my closest four friends are left-handed, I have type 1 diabetes, vitiligo and a PhD. 😂

10:27 is the best

Enjoyable Meades, but a rare case where I semi-disagree with the central premise - because the thing with capital R Regeneration is that it does work*, but we'll never do it properly because every decision-maker in the country is deathly afraid of spending money. Essentially just remediate the land, draw out a grid (A GRID - the main sin of many otherwise noble Modernist renewal efforts was their iconoclastic refusal to do what the sumerians, greeks, romans, countless dynasties of China knew was the optimal urban form) of streets, fill the space between with flats and grade A office space and enough retail units for some rubbish cafes (they will be rubbish, but as long as there's some charming pre-1945 urbanism within walking distance with a few legacy gin palaces still surviving and space for actually interesting businesses to colonise it'll work out), and make sure people can actually commute there (!). It's that simple! But if you try to do it on 1/3rd of the budget and without the metro lines (it is genuinely criminal that Birmingham, Manchester, and Leeds lack a system, and that Newcastle, Glasgow, and Liverpools' are so small and ineffectual) that you actually need it will end up falling flat. New Labour regen turned out a lot of wank because they were too keen on building galleries in fields of empty brown land instead of plastering said fields with offices + flats and giving them a metro station (and letting the culture emerge organically from floods of new yuppies with money to burn), because doing the former was cheap and flashy, and doing the latter was expensive and boring. *It doesn't work in small towns - only Newcastle-and-above scale cities which have a heavy enough weight of population to have a decent talent pool. Small towns facing declining legacy industry nearly always have to effectively to make themselves into dependent suburbs to their nearest large city to revive their fortunes, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, a strategy adopted by countless irrelevant parasitic Southern market towns and sad little villages, most of which never progressed beyond a collection of hovels and a few rickety provincial early modern guildhalls/tollgates once it became clear that farming alone was trumped as an industry by harvesting the salaries of middle managers, but one that is understandably emotionally difficult for historically actually productive Northern mill towns with their grids of streets, mills, marbeled town halls, and civic pride to accept, or continue to decline.

That soldier being interviewed at the 2:00:38 mark? He just got elected as an MP for the Lib Dems the other day which is not the party I’d associate with the squaddies I’ll honest 💀

Love meades

In my family my grandfather was a lefty and he was one of those once every few generations type of man, they don't build them like him anymore. Then there's me, and I'm the only leftist since him, but I'm also "dyslexic" but I'm told im highly ambidextrous and as a kid i noticed I being able to have equally precision and power between left and right was a rare skill

34:11 song?

You can smell the money that was spent on Mr meads education he reeks of posh schools and the right to elbow you out of the way.

The Burning down of the forward statue was peak brume

Fact that adam curtis hasnt been on rogan , makes me lose alot of respect for the jre.

I long for stuff like this. I don't always agree with Jonathan but he doesn't talk down on me. He talks to me as an adult with half a brain, something that is allmost unheard of these days. Especially on youtube.

Amazing program.

Thanks for this G-burn -- and thanks to Mr Meades ---⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Afghanistan is not a state but pile of rocks.

as soon as I start rolling joint I know I'll be watching this video at least 3 times

although I have always been a fan of mr meade's work I think this is one of his least successful programmes and speaking as someone who lives in essex I find quite a lot of his remarks arrogant and downright insulting!, yes conrad noel may have come across as being a "communist agitator" but he did do a lot of good for thaxted and even now the morris side he helped to form ( not "invent") is still going strong!. the radio segments are nauseating and if anything they only cement the stereotypes of essex meades is supposedly keen to avoid, I don't know who the researcher was but clearly they have never been to thaxted nor have they bothered to include some of the more interesting aspects of this historic (and misunderstood) county.

I’m the left handed libra 😈

Jonathon Meades just like Woody Allen - started off funny but then became serious, and boring! But we still have their early films...

2:05 music

what the music at 48:04

Love a bit of Meades

The more I know the less I'm able to fix our world dominated by oil and culture.

Everywhere one goes in Scotland there is the inevitable ugly noise of screaming, screeching Herring Gulls.

One of the other Scottish myths is that, unlike in England, it is a classless society. It's just a coincidence that all Scottish towns and cities have their exclusive West End where all the wealthy middle classes are to be found. My own home town of Greenock continues to have its West End privileged status within the planning structure entirely protected by the local authoritity, including it's Labour Councillors. West Ender's call "Jump!" and Greenock's Councillors reply in chorus "How High?"

I love the observation by Thatcher's admirer the character Arthur Daley: "You've got to admire a woman who sold back to us everything we already owned".

So disgusting to see all these corrupt African leaders living in luxury in Paris paid for by Western taxpayers. Needless to say the White middle class liberal Western media keeps quiet about such corruption.

Genius

Moist Groin! Great name for a heavy metal band.

Left handed people living in a right handed world

This editing is really bugging me tbh

Great at being menacing and apocalyptic, but ultimately (and ironically) a bit hollow.

Masterful and engrossing.

He completely loses me when he starts going on about regional accents and footballer's hairdos. I do not understand if he is naysaying regional accents. He seems to be fond of slang, but not of regional accents? Seems like there is some kind of tension there. Slang and regional accents are pretty much intertwined.

TIL southpaws think they’re gifted.