Secret History Of Our Streets

[The G Experience!]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jt9bv/The_Secret_History_of_Our_Streets_Deptford_High_Street/

This was an absolutely superb documentary, an exemplar of how to approach social history in both a moving way by letting people tell their own stories, but also with a rigorous investigative drive to reveal the hidden forces that shape history.

Best television programme I've seen all year. Please have a look.

[Jeemo]

Watched it tonight, fantastic stuff

[The G Experience!]

Watched it tonight, fantastic stuff

Indeed. There's a long documentary waiting to be made about the way post-war developers, through a mixture of arrogant modernising zeal and greed, ruined Britain's towns and cities.

[The Prof]

Wasn't it nice when one of the bankers on Portland Road asked where we thought all the public money given to bail out the banks went?

Straight to the bankers so they could buy £4million houses on Portland road.

Makes you proud.

[Billy]

Damn good series, mr G - did you also see the 'market' trilogy?

[The G Experience!]

Wasn't it nice when one of the bankers on Portland Road asked where we thought all the public money given to bail out the banks went?

Straight to the bankers so they could buy £4million houses on Portland road.

Makes you proud.

I quite liked his honesty - "What you don't think it goes on loans to small businesses do you?"!

Honestly I think if people knew the half of it, they'd become communists overnight.

Then there was the woman who thought she lived in the "bohemian" part of the street because the houses were only worth two million.

One of the best aspects of this series has been hearing from the old working class cockneys as they're always good storytellers. Sadly they are a dying breed.

[Hugh]

I really enjoyed this. It's not finished yet though is it?

[The G Experience!]

I really enjoyed this. It's not finished yet though is it?

One more I believe.

I hope there's a second series, perhaps looking at some of Britain's other cities.

[Spec]

There's six (I think) in total. I've seen the first three so far. They're great. I'd like a few more bits of archive film but that's a personal preference.

I liked the Caledonian Road one. Makes you think about places and how you look at them and think "that should just be pulled down and something new put up in its place" without thinking that there is often a community there without it being obvious to the outsider. And how outsiders interfering can make social problems worse.

[Hugh]

This weeks was much more interesting than last week's I thought. It seemed a really good place to live. That Terry Sullivan guy had a pair of Quad Electrostatic speakers. Lucky sod.

[навука вугра]

I just saw a recent BBC documentary on London's East End, which was excellent.