Time Shift - Switch Off Something - BBC4 2006 - Three Day Week Documentary

[@Iluvthe1960s]

I was 17 and in my first job on £4.00 a week working for a local printing firm, I actually thought it great only working 3 days a week! Oh to be young

[@bendover9663]

Thanks for the upload, seems like history is repeating itself

[@daweshorizon]

As a nine year old boy at the time, I had great fun during the power cuts. My parents were lifelong campers, so we had gas stoves and gas lighting. It became an adventure. No problems! Weird contrast though. During the 1970's power cuts, candles were a necessity and probably regarded as a bit of an inconvenience. In 2023, candles are a luxury thing, especially if they are scented or pretty to look at or have some fancy 'brand' attached to them. And cost crazy money. A bit odd, maybe? A power-cut event in today's world would be catastrophic for users of mobiles, internet, social media and for EV drivers amongst countless others. I hope an outage doesen't happen any time soon but hey, if it does, I'll be fine! I survived the Seventies, it's all good. As always, love and peace.

[@thetudortimes]

Remember the powercuts we just went down the pub every night beer was cheap back then.

[@buffplums]

35:40 Jeremy Thorpe received a package that when he opened it, it exploded and went “puff” 😂😂😂😂

[@markhamilton9834]

It went POOF,,,🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🤮

[@user-tv8sm6so9y]

And he was involved with trying to kill his Ex-Boyfriends Dog leaving his Ex-Boyfriend running for his life. The 60's had the Perfumo Affair and the 70's had Jeremy Thorpe and his Ex Boyfriend Norman Scott.

[@buffplums]

@@markhamilton9834lol yeah a right big POOOFFFF! 😂😂

[@lukedean4128]

Coming to Britain in 2022!

[@lloydsmith8662]

History always repeats itself👍

[@1goodthing]

I felt sorry for the poor family in Buckingham Palace and how they suffered

[@lesleymcshanemitchell9651]

Unfortunately you and I weren't born into Royalty but it's childish to begrudge the people who were

[@johnking5174]

15:34 - The hypocrisy of this statement from Heath made me laugh. Telling the British public to reduce their electricity use, whilst he lived in Number 10 Downing Street which had back up electricity generators which kicked in when ever a power outage happened. So Heath never had to worry about power outages due to strikes when he was Prime Minister.

[@andrewbillingsley4163]

Remember the chancellor saying this only 1 week ago very very strange hey.

[@johnking5174]

@@andrewbillingsley4163 Different though now, where in 2022 we import electricity, and have interconnectors with around 8 different countries. We did not have that in 1973/74 - it was all our own coal power and that was it.

[@peterevans3839]

Andrew Neil and others of the middle class Tory saying how dare these these workers go on strike complaining about trying to get a good deal for themselves,protecting their lives and families, from his nice bijoux little London pad, probably bought with mummy and daddy's money ! Yes the class system still alive and well and right wingers still as greedy as ever in 2022 ( and when this was made ).

[@bobjames6622]

But don't forget that there were some things that Heath DEFINITELY wanted to keep in the dark; for instance his prediliction for raping, torturing, buggering and then murdering small boys. Boys which his chum Savile would procure for him, often to be abused and murdered aboard Heaths yacht and their bodies then thrown overboard. And all covered up of course.

[@louiseowusu246]

History definitely does repeat itself! This time it might be an amalgamation of 73/74 and 78/79. Tony Booth (Till Death Us Do Part) reminds me of Jack Duckworth

[@Sugarnaut]

One of my favorite lines from the Sweeney.

[@brettwalters-n4u]

2023 history revisiting...

[@hemingwayrohan]

Great job! I remember it well, especially the candles!

[@angelacooper2661]

I don't remember it well as I was just three!

[@bryn494]

I remember petrol being £5/gallon at Leicester services and can confirm my Kawasaki KH250 could run on paraffin. Definitely the aroma of the year :D

[@markhamilton9834]

I had a Triple also,,then went to Yamaha Bubbler,,or the Kettle as it was know.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

[@Dadopersoblueboots]

We lived in a 70s flat everything electric. ⚡ in the winter we Scraped the ice off the windows 😮

[@jamesmt142]

Buying toilet paper in a crisis? Surely not!

[@elizabethcotton4659]

😂

[@goodwood-rc4nx]

remember during the last panic saw a cartoon with doc brown saying to Marty just got back from 2040 and some people are opening their last pack of loo rolls from 2022

[@TheSmegPod]

Not too fond of the blatant anti-union slant but an interesting watch nonetheless

[@chrisbayes2972]

Andrew Neil @17:00 - "Would you like to shower with me?" - Odious toad.

[@lukebarber9511]

19:48 History really does repeat...

[@thealbionarchivist9127]

Why is it always toilet roll? 🤣

[@Saxonybedwitch]

A bit of salt on and you've got a substantial meal. A couple of sheets and it keeps you warm. Then you wipe your arse on it. After that you make bowls and sell them to posh people.

[@AlanMacKenzieBTN]

We might have been cold, but we were happier back then. We were happy, because we were cold.

[@chrissyman77]

You were lucky 🤣

[@AlanMacKenzieBTN]

@@chrissyman77 In my day, we cooked dinner using body heat, if we were lucky!

[@angelacooper2661]

My first memory was walking down the hall at Granny's house in the dark and thinking it was fun, because I was just four and Play School age at the time (1974). Granny had a gas cooker and I remember we had minced beef for dinner. Life was easier for me, being too young to understand or remember politics!

[@Saxonybedwitch]

@@AlanMacKenzieBTN That where luxury. Seventeen of us lived in a shoebox and used the heat of our anger to cook one spud between us all. I sacrificed my small finger to feed the youngest nine siblings. We drank tears for hydration. For entertainment me dad would beat us elders up. Good old days.

[@AlanMacKenzieBTN]

@@Saxonybedwitch You were lucky to drink tears. We had to cry all the water out of our bodies every day for a year, just to share a bath between the entire street on Boxing Day. We survived the winter of 1947, and it was character-building. In my day, we kept warm by burning shoes, books, homework, the garden shed, and floorboards, if we were lucky. And you could leave your front door unlocked, if you hadn't burnt all the doors in your house to heat up thin gruel first!

[@hugoboss5895]

Smoking drinking and bad hair aged people terrible back then😂

[@angelacooper2661]

I wouldn't know as I was Play School age - too young to understand or remember that period!

[@angelacooper2661]

I was too young to understand what was going on- just three and Play School age. Three year olds don't understand politics!

[@velaphitshabalala2912]

This is where South Africa is at the moment.

[@MarkPMus]

I agree with you. The unions are essential. We wouldn’t even be able to wish each other a good weekend without them. Never underestimate their role in a democratic society.

[@MarkPMus]

I agree with you. The unions are essential. We wouldn’t even be able to wish each other a good weekend without them. Never underestimate their role in a democratic society.

[@ronki23]

I don't understand what they mean by "three day week". Do they mean you only get 72 hours electricity a week ? If it means only working 3 days a week then why is that a bad thing if they're paid for only 3 days?

[@stansharred9352]

I dont recall it as a time of particular hardship.

[@JH-lt6hn]

More like Time Travel than Time Shift now under a certain Liz Truss!

[@teddy1066]

1:36 Eddie Izzard looks terrible

[@blu3_enjoy]

Lol

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Idi Amin has so many tons of bananas

[@buffplums]

Good old Philip Glenister… what a hero 😂

[@rameshbhattacharjee4374]

At Least It Was Not Like The Blackout Of 1940 During The Blitz

[@johnking5174]

I think you misunderstood the term Blackout during world war 2. It didn't mean electricity supplies, it mean blacking out your windows to avoid light being shown to enemy aircraft. Power supplies in the war was actually fine, as homes and businesses only used it for the electric light and possibly their wireless set. Unlike 1970s where power was needed for huge factories and businesses and new electric equipment in the home

[@francesleader2746]

Typical BBC exaggeration and deception. 1973 was a breeze. We got on with it and found ways to have fun, just like we do now. Stop fearmongering!

[@duffymoony]

23:01, 32??? Fk me, 52 at least!

[@jamiearmstrong3487]

Idi Amin, known for his charity.

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Its ironic that the iron witch is burning in the pit of hell ....!!!!😅

[@jettjones9889]

Bolloxs

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

@@jettjones9889 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈🔥🔥🔥🔥🦨🦨🦨

[@anddyx]

I can't stand the labour party

[@johnking5174]

Idiot - Labour was not in power during the three day week, it was the scumbag conservatives.