1968: Reflections on DUNDEE in the 1930s | Cameron Country | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive

[@Take_Me_Back_To_The_1980s]

A priceless time capsule

[@stevejames2896]

An absolute gem! So beautifully filmed and the commentary so insightful. A really outstanding example of 60s television (and early BBC2 colour). I don't know if Cameron Country exists in full in the archive- if it does, it deserves a repeat run on BBC4.

[@Plumduff3303]

Fascinating thanks

[@SharonMcwilliams78]

am very grateful for this film. My home town , he could be speaking about “Bonnie Dundee now “. That Graveyard was owned by Mary Queen of Scot’s. Like most of the buildings that surround it.

[@JJONNYREPP]

1968: Reflections on DUNDEE in the 1930s | Cameron Country | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive 0944am 19.8.24 classic case of people censoring things cos it doesn't suit them.... i recall dundee. i visited the place on holiday as a young child. full of submarines. highland flings and dancing... and not much else in the way of anything to do. "probably left his brain in dundee" being the acme of interaction. laughter ringing in eras due to holiday ventures there. sadly my brain is not in dundee. though the desire to play: i'm in charge is rife whether in dundee or not...

[@SharonMcwilliams78]

@@JJONNYREPP hey 👋🏻 like 👍🏻 ok ✅ can make or break my city. One letter.

[@JJONNYREPP]

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[@76ToneCrome]

There's a lonely, harsh beauty about Scotland in the morning rain.

[@JJONNYREPP]

1968: Reflections on DUNDEE in the 1930s | Cameron Country | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive 0949am 19.8.24 that's all it did when we were there, in dundee... rain. and the odd day of sunshine brought tossers of the caber and highland maids dancing over swords... "oh, i didnt know you were referring to a holiday..." - adolf hitler

[@Evemeister12]

Only when you're watching it on KZbin. Try walking in it.

[@ianwilliams2632]

The raininess is precisely why I love it. I don't care how bleak a place is, rain makes it intensely comfy always. Put kettle on, don't worry about industrial waste and commercial slums. There's loveliness still to be had in rainy company.

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@ianwilliams2632 1932pm 19.824 like now. where i live. it's raining as if on cue. enter rain. brew up some tea. and sit and mumble to oneself. about how drab and grey and industrial it all is. cept it aint industrial it's just drab and boring... you can be romantic when you're old and drab and grey, yerself. the mind numbing tedium and the evil savagery of the people is what it's come to....

[@markwakeman-f8z]

Lovely piece by an informed journalist far superior to the celeb based travel blogs we get today.

[@scroggins100]

Please keep trawling the vaults. Superb. I wonder if you might pass it around the current reporters as an inspiration?

[@Fernweh1965]

I sit at home in a rainy Dundee not dissimilar to the one in this clip. I was 2 when this was filmed and can remember parents talking of the working class poverty back then, as Dundee still suffers from now. A town of great disposable wealth for a few, great debt that looks like disposable wealth for some and a great many with no wealth at all.

[@Thunderpuddle]

It has improved a lot since, considered as a UK cultural centre.. and a Scottish gem. Apparently the city accounts for 10% of the UK's digital entertainment industry, including mobile apps and gaming. They don't make TV like this, these intelligent programmes, are no longer watched or wanted, which is a terrible shame. So interesting.

[@jcr6311]

Interesting video 👍

[@theram4320]

Why is the BBC incapable of producing programmes like this today? Utter bilge nowadays.

[@itemushmush]

amazingly poignant. thanks for the upload!

[@dernawey]

Good old Great Britain

[@brianmmacu]

I thought the start of that was in summer 2024....

[@WKCockRobin]

Kind of depressing seeing the country and it's people go to the dogs.

[@jimmywhyte7181]

And the apes.

[@DominicMarshall-gy3mq]

You Lot are far to Morbid * Looking back 30 years is like a few Months 😊

[@pcalf101]

He must be long dead now.. especially with them 60s cigs

[@richardjones8699]

1985

[@JJONNYREPP]

1968: Reflections on DUNDEE in the 1930s | Cameron Country | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive 0947am 9.8.24 @SharonMcwilliams78 replied: "@JJONNYREPP Dundee FC Fan." i replied: ah!! i enjoy football per se or did. it's not what it used to be... football or dundee. you have a gallery now? and a few cafe bars. and a bunch of crafts people desperate to leave their wrists limp as they serve you cracklin' nut crud coffee, no doubt?

[@Dave_Cymru]

Notice, not once did he wipe the rain from his eye; the reason? No acid rain!

[@user-yh7cl9kj8k]

Don't talk like a prat!😂😂

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

​@@user-yh7cl9kj8kHe's welsh so comes by it naturally.