If the BBC had maintained this standard of analysis, who knows where we'd be now?
Possibly we'd be in much the same place, as there is an impersonal element to the impact of technology on cultural drift, as Aldous Huxley explains so well. Once the seed is sown...
Neither of those two old geezers could win Strictly or Britain's Got Talent, so I can't see why the BBC bothered with them. They sound as if they'd asked Chat GPT a lot of old-fashioned questions, and let's be honest, that show's not very diverse, is it?
ReplyDeleteI can't remember whether I'd sent you this. I found it fascinating.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OXtO92x5KA
Sam - and would they sit in a bath full of baked beans to save all those children on Red Nose Day? I don't think so.
ReplyDeletedearieme - yes I think you did and it is still fascinating. There are a number of Bertrand Russell YT videos which I haven't really explored, but this is one on smoking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80oLTiVW_lc