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Whats the music at 42:00?

7th May 1970.

Anyone know the shopping centre type place he's walking through at the start?

I love Auden's poetry. I don't know any 20th century English poet who produced better verse than he did. And Melvyn, dear, why bring up that so old -- decades old -- row about Auden and Isherwood staying in America during the war? Who the hell cares? In 1940, Auden was 33 and Isherwood 36 -- hardly in their prime battlefield years. Should they have come back to London and written telegraphs for the Foreign Office? Come up out of the trenches, Melvyn; the war is over. Besides, England didn't really treat its gay war heroes all that well, did it? I mean, look what it did to Alan Turing, who practically saved the island single handedly. The way Bragg sets up the narrative of this documentary is really mendacious.

Ye dee dee art though, divven ye?

Great to see Melvyn standing in front of a snowy Killhope Wheel

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Six years after he made this one, I started in my first job with Butterdane UK. We handled all the shipping orders for Lurpak butter to the UK. The Danish Office was in Aarhus.

C. F. Møller - a name to conjure with?

Those pesky people ruining museums by their presence ...

9:24 I'm a bit confused about his comment about Eskimos/'colour problem'? I know it was a different time and some of what was said everyday back then would be beyond the pale now but if I'm decoding what he's saying correctly, that's a pretty crass comment. Unless someone can put me right on his actual meaning and I'm way off the mark?

Does anyone know whose version of 'Waters of Tyne' (4:40) it is? I really like it.

Wonderful period piece. The 1960s/70s Newcastle of my childhood. Thank you.

a used to walk through the old arcade in the 60s it was full of gold lustre on the capitals ,a think it was an grain storage holding during the Victorian era and I always wondered where the old stones came from when near the byker railway bridge on the right travelling to the city centre I stumbled on them in Heaton opposite wares and bartlet builders merchant warick street heaton

Thanks for posting I love Nairn so nostalgic.

Can't thank you enough for uploading this, I have been looking for it for over a decade

That guy actually looks a little like Auden

Wonderful….thank you for showing….

7 months been up and it’s only just showing me it . And I’ve looked for Ian only recently

Northumbrian burr on that song! Fantastic

Something new on TH-cam on Auden … wonderful!

ARHUS, in the middle of our street

Leeds were a delight to watch when they won the title in 73/74. What if ...

Too late for the uk,after Thatcherism and the scum voted 13 years Tory, Britain is Afrikaans

I remember the replica Royal Arcade - I stumbled across it during a Sunday afternoon walk in the early 90s - no shops there other than a sorry looking newsagent - the whole place looked completely forgotten and unwanted. It left a lasting impression on me - and I’m pleased to see this film featuring much of the Newcastle I knew back then.

When Ahus is said in a Geordie accent it becomes 'our house.'

Many thanks for this, let’s hope the rest of his BBC programmes are made available to view on here or iplayer.

Newcastle and 'Wor hous' surely?

Really enjoyed that. Thanks a bunch

Nairn pronounces" Newcastle" just like the locals. I am impressed

The movie is fictional crap

'The Damned United' misses two great stories and focusses on a period of time that was representative neither of Leeds or of Clough. In the preceding season, Leeds had taken a season off from kicking people and just outplayed every other team in the team. It suggested that perhaps they had been held back by their own cynicism and would have won more had they focussed on their skills. The second story is that of Clough at Forest. He took a team consisting largely of players that no one else wanted from the 2nd Division (now the Championship) to win 2 European Cups.

the film is a sham, Brian Clough and his family and Johnny Giles sued the film makers

Home sweet Home and proud too be a Geordie ❤🙏👍

Good to see John Warwick cranking his camera.

The script, "And the only colour problem was Eskimos" !!!!!! Shocking hearing that in 2023, and this was a documentary

These old Ian Nairn programs are a delight. Thank you for sharing this!

What year?

Thanks for sharing this!

This is a great share: so it's a big thank you from this old Queer!

Kinda ironic that the country (or empire at that time) that saved millions and acted as a stalwart protector of liberty and freedom across the globe did such horrible things at that time (or even further in the past), we sometimes forget who is the liberator and who is the tyrant, lest they redeem themselves from such actions by never repeating them again...

Loved this documentary ❤️