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New to Bill Bryson and listened to every book I can find. Cant believe it took me until 61 years before listening. What an amazing man and a phenomenally entertaining author/reader 😊

09:56 Allow me introduce you to Mr Blair, and much later, Mr Starmer who will in time replace it with party donors and political cronies.

a good record of the history of the once GREAT Briton - shame all the greatness is now being destroyed by invaders and the #WEF including their agenda 2030 . . .😞

3 hour exotic train journey, today it can take 4😂

Truly brilliant, hilarious

The invention of the loch and combining it with canals to transport products from inner England to ports revolusionised 'industrial England" in the mid 1700s. The inventor of the loch was James Francis Brindley.

Janet I'll see you back in Cleveland.

Love Bill Bryson. Haven’t met a scouser who didn’t think they were hilarious, and I’m yet to laugh at a single thing any one of them has ever said.

God bless you Victoria Wood - we miss you 😢

Thanks for these videos Rob. A rare glimpse into a piece of even rarer TV tranquility. I have read most of Bill Bryson’s books so this was really lovely to see him and hear his him voice his own words.

What a beautiful voice Bill has!

I have just finished watching the 7 episodes, and while Bill shows great affection for our country, its people and its ways, I couldn't help seeing it as an affectionate documentary about a country in decline, lamenting what it once was. that has now passed. I listened to his audio account of "Notes from a Small Island" on BBC (on the radio, I think) a long time ago - possibly around the turn of the century, though I think it was before that. In any case, that programme was very funny. While this video series has been a delight, the two programmes were, if memory serves (which it still does a little!) the two were of very different humour. One thing in remember from the previous one as when a bunch of yobbos in a car drove through a puddle and splashed water on him in Weston Super-mare (?), then turned around to repeat the gesture, with a "cheery rejoinder" of "Weuuuuhh heuuuhh". Bill Bryson is a delighjt, and always seems to research and present the off-beat aspects of his chosen subject - the things that nobody thinks about till they are presented in his inimitable, fresh way.

Donald McDonald would be pleased to know that Gaelic is now spoken in Canada, in some parts of Nova Scotia. It is lovely to hear his poem, and to hear the singing in western Isles of Scotland

The person who owns the book shop in Saltaire looks a lot like Bil Bryson

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

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What comes over in spade-loads is Bill Bryson's honesty not only in his opinions about our country but about himself. His gentle voice is somehow safe and I find when reading his many books I can hear him talking as I read the words. That is surely unique. He throws a spotlight on what is lost now since he first came here and somehow reassures us that if we just value Britain we won't lose it all for ever or we should be careful not to lose it. Thank you for posting this I watched all episodes even though I have the book.

The train spotter needs to get a grip!

Thank you so much. I just found this series and have watched all 7 happily on the Summer Solstace! xxx

Bill you are way taller than i thought. I love and reread all your books every year.

Wow it was 7 years ago when I made this

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

His writing has more than a touch of Twain. Lovely.

I liked the book a lot, so glad I have this to watch too 👍

The song goes like this: Take o take me as I am Summon out what I shall be Set your seal upon my heart And live in me.

Thanks for uploading this!

shame the cato affair didn't succeed cant have been any worse than the politicians & their masters treating us proles with such contempt!

I'm wondering why Bill doesn't live back in Iowa

I tooo love trains and buses

I imagine you have British in you and it calls to you all the time..deep in your bones

You are brilliantly naturally funny. I read and laugh out loud..sometimes to tears.

I have read most of your books and reread them all each year. Love them. You have a great gift of how you view and share the world with us.

Have you done a DNA test? I imagine you have a high German percentage. Then I think you have Irish too. It's personality I'm gonna Ng by. Smart, funny, detail organized is a beautiful German trait. Focused and a planner. I love how you seem to blend in to where ever you are. Your voice is very good for narrative.

Hah !! I didn't know Tardiff word letters, from Dr Who, each stood from something. I'm not a Dr Who follower. I love Mr Bean and Rowan from Mr Bean, as the Black Adder..and Black Books

You are def a Midwesterner. Your view is interestingly diff than us people raised on East or west coast of America.. love it. It's part of what makes your writing so wonderful

See I have NO desire to visit Lake District. I am in love with the whole length of the South Coast of f England. Plus parts of Scotland. I have only 14% British in me..but it calls to me.

Shallow and anexoric

None of those rich in that noisy fashion room live in the Real world .

She asked you to make your own way !?!!! She would call a cab for you..WHAT A CHEAP PERSON..

Sadly the Rich ruin life for all regular people

I know when I do visit other South Coast of England I will go off tourist season. I have always loved where trains all the time..so will enjoy grey days

I do not want to visit London and be gagged but smell of Curry

It's tradition. America sadly has nothing. England has so much country pride.. Americans now fail their country

Ladies singing was beautiful

Pink room was lovely

Many thanks are due to you for posting this set of videos that allow just anyone, anytime, access to Bill Bryson's Love Letter to Britain. Well done, loverly, and much endearing.

Thanks for this Rob

Keep it. Keep Britain. Keep London. Been there, lived there, and I don't even look back. To each his own.