My secret pleasure - listening to the great northern teacher , story teller, historian ,playwrite author and so much more that is Mr Alan Bennett
@marks6928 Жыл бұрын
“Shops selling what people really want, rather than what they can be persuaded to want”. Such a great phrase.
@jillylloyd35274 жыл бұрын
I love Alan Bennett so much. He always get it so right.
@six8bunny14 жыл бұрын
Dear Alan, I rated this film snippet 'AWSOME' because there wasn't an 'VERY PLEASANT AND ENJOYABLE' rating. So pleased to be on earth the same time as you. Ian, Leeds
@evelyntan55888 ай бұрын
Loved this and enjoyed the brief commentary re: shoppers and shopping.
@ardesh0073 жыл бұрын
Some people make the world a better place by jus being in it Bennet is one of so few.
@KnappKnits Жыл бұрын
"out-of-the-way mustards"
@carolinekennedy444611 жыл бұрын
Alan Bennett saved me from Shakespeare at school because he spoke my language - I love him!
@easytiger94 жыл бұрын
8.00 That is my mum's old kitchenware shop. La Cucina. My first job.
@simongould12552 жыл бұрын
The seedy shops, herbalists and second hand books; classic Bennett.
@TS-12673 жыл бұрын
...and a Yorkshire Man 'to Boot', love him in Harrogate I've heard tell...😉🙏🍻
@morrisseysquiff10639 жыл бұрын
property developers have too much to answer for.
@DavidBrown-cp2vm Жыл бұрын
Wot a miserable bastard ! I love him !!
@harri2626 Жыл бұрын
Alan sounds more "posh" in this video than we are used to today.
@Mum608 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed seeing the County Arcade, and love Alan Bennett, but was wondering why he didn't show Thornton's arcade too with the mechanical clock that I loved to go and see with my Mum as a child on our visits to Leeds. I've been in Australia since March, '67. Three visits back, '87 after 20yrs, then '91 and last visit in '98. In '87 I could see where all the new things added since I left, had already had a chance to age. A lot more rubbish around than there used to be because of all the fast food places we didn't have then, except for fish and chips, and weeds everywhere in the cracks in the pavements and at the bases of brick walls on the housing estates.
@revol1485 жыл бұрын
+Mum60 what's the relevance of you living in Australia?
@rachell44173 жыл бұрын
Ah, the specialty shops.
@shutty66613 жыл бұрын
What a treat
@telemahos214 жыл бұрын
'how sad modern life is' in most of UK and few other similar corners of the world.. not everywhere is like this - even if it's been asked to become.. And of course shops and tastes do not appear (and disappear) out of the blue - Bennet just scrapes the surface here..
@ABC_DEF3 жыл бұрын
What a curmudgeon. Alan Bennett even manages to feel miserable when his favourite shopping arcade has been beautifully restored and brought back to life with commercially successful shops.
@ghughesarch2 жыл бұрын
one of the many reasons so many of us love him.
@barrycross25853 ай бұрын
I can’t help feeling that you’re missing the whole point
@neohtel9 жыл бұрын
Building Sights.
@tonyg74583 жыл бұрын
Can anybody identify the music on Alan Bennett's tour de force
@ghughesarch2 жыл бұрын
"I used to sigh for the silvery moon"
@mutikonka15 жыл бұрын
I'm a Thornton's Arcade man myself.
@arthurdayne73356 жыл бұрын
mutikonka Piss off
@ruffian18687 жыл бұрын
Can anyone tell me the name of the song played throughout the segment ?
@ABC_DEF3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'd like to know too.
@ruffian18683 жыл бұрын
@@ABC_DEF " I used to Sigh For The Silvery Moon" - Sydney Thompson
@ABC_DEF3 жыл бұрын
@@ruffian1868 Thank you so much! I have just spent half an hour randomly searching for it and would never have found it.
@ruffian18683 жыл бұрын
@@ABC_DEF No problem. Enjoy :)
@Belfreyite5 жыл бұрын
Corsets are coming back, especially among the more kinky girls out there.
@clockwork98275 жыл бұрын
Is BBC Elstree production still around ? Good idea
@andrewashdown3541 Жыл бұрын
sights
@welshhibby14 жыл бұрын
"lovely lovely shopping"....how sad modern life is