Notes from a Small Island 2 of 7

[@RM-ti8nf]

What a beautiful voice Bill has!

[@stevetayler8833]

He’s a great interviewer bill gentle, genuinely interested in people and let’s them talk without being interrupted with endless stupid questions.

[@kerstinklenovsky239]

Nobody loves these isles as much as Bill Bryson does.

[@rgh9532]

Love bill bryson 💙

[@MisAlizana]

I just love how Bill brings the best of British and American humor together in taking the piss out of them both and yet loving them both

[@yorickthetog]

I only read 'Notes from a Small Island' in April 2019. I did not know about the TV series (although my wife says that she remembers watching some of them) - I wasn't a Bryson fan then. I am currently about 1/3 along the road to Little Dribbling and enjoying it very much. After reading Small Island I read his book on Australia. This is very funny AND enlightening about OZ! Thanks for uploading these videos.

[@MisAlizana]

Love Bill so much

[@kirsten121]

Thanks for uploading this!

[@merseydave1]

In regard to my City of Liverpool (then) that was the early/mid 1990s ... The City Center now is a prosperous vibrant place with social cultural activity, continuous building developments yet keeping its heritage, its a place people flocked to ... Before the Covid epidemic!.

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

And politically speaking, you've got your heads screwed on. None of you buy The Sun, for a start.

[@jamesmason8436]

I visited in 1998, and then again in 2018, and the change was dramatic.

[@watermelonineasterhay]

I was in town before and I heard a wide variety of accents and it was full of revellers so it's definitely recovering.

[@fedraescuderohaldane6962]

"People come from all over the world the watch his organ rise." LMAO!

[@firefox5926]

11:30 it stands as an example to the world " it happened here it could happen to you" lol

[@howey935]

My mother won £67,000 playing bingo when she won the national in the early 2000’s.

[@unasperanza9803]

I will say this for strictly they have brought the TOwer Ballroom back to its glory days!!

[@kingdad8457]

Truly brilliant, hilarious

[@hunkydoryize1]

Brilliant

[@themoviedealers]

"We used to build civilizations, now we build shopping malls." NOT ANYMORE.

[@nickyfield137]

I'll forgive Bill because he is American but plenty of British people make the same mistake - its not a Robin Reliant, its a Reliant Robin ! People don't say a Fiesta Ford !

[@themoviedealers]

There was an American Chrysler product, a Dodge Reliant, so that's probably from where the conflation springs.

[@bhwst68]

Please, what is the music played around 19:00 ?

[@bhwst68]

Thanks!

[@mellowfellow4755]

Samuel Barber Adagio for strings

[@sianiswack633]

1999. I wonder if things are looking up. I'll say they are. Bryson's accent is fairly mild. Imagine Loyd Grossman doing the same, with his extraordinary twisted vowels

[@SuperBartles]

3:45 that's the same gag twice already Bill...

[@HerAeolianHarp]

He repeats gags and observations all too often in his otherwise amusing works.

[@PSUK]

@@HerAeolianHarp oh, give it up will ya?

[@jackcalder6561]

The train spotter needs to get a grip!

[@BWPT.]

@ 1:00 Yes Bill, that band is called Slipknot!

[@mustafaali5393]

No, Toxxin, I shall get the 18th

[@kushhalai6403]

lol

[@katashworth41]

Blackpool is even more of a dump than ever (but one with an interesting prom)

[@angelwingz892]

Competitive pipe smoking....never heard of it. Watching smile free ballroom dancing is grim. Lol "sit down" she ordered. So quiet that you think you are dead already.

[@HerAeolianHarp]

I liked Notes from a Small Island, but far less Little Dribbling because it seemed tired and formulaic, as if he were just trading on rehash.

[@dublinius]

He's a good writer but a poor narrator, he just doesn't have the voice for it. His audiobooks narrated by professionals are much better than the ones he does himself, as these programmes show - very quiet, flat and with almost no expressiveness.

[@gingerfellah5665]

I agree, Kerry Shale is excellent