History Today - The Industrial Revolution (from the Mary Whitehouse experience)

  / 173472422695696   http://www.ceepackaging.com twitter : @ceepackaging   / 135108923181666   An amusing sketch of a spoof version of History Today from the 1990 comedy the Whitehouse Experience. DB: Er, welcome once again to History Today. I'm afraid that tonight the axe is hanging over our programme. We have been warned that unless we properly explore tonight's topic of discussion, the Industrial Revolution, my and Professor F.J Lewis' tenure on the television will be terminated forthwith. So, Professor Lewis, what do you feel were the primary problems faced by urban society during the period 1702 to '56? RN: Well the Industrial Revolution caused a shift to urban conurbations by what had been largely agrarian population and communities and so forth. This led to very poor living conditions, and in his journal Samuel Pepys gives a particularly harrowing account of one man, whom he describes thus: {reads from book} 'He had scurvy and rickets and was covered from head to foot in festering sores. All in all he was quite the most ghastly apparition of a man I had ever seen.' DB: I see. Who exactly was this poor unfortunate? RN: {slowly turns the page} That's you, that is. That's the nicest thing he could find to say about you. DB: I see. See that M. Khan? RN: I have certainly heard of the fellow. DB: He's your best mate he is. He's like your special friend. You are him - Professor F.J.M Khan, is bent. RN: Oh ah ha ha ha. You see a piece of old crust, with like blue mould all over it? DB: Er, that's got a bit wet in the corner? RN: Yes, yes that's right and very stale and hard. DB: Has it been on the floor? RN: Yes, it has been on the floor and it smells very bad because it is off. DB: Yes? RN: That's your dinner, that is. That's what you have at Christmas. That's your special birthday meal. DB: See this? {pulls a face} That's you, that is. RN: Sorry, I didn't see you do anything then. All you did was this {keeps a straight face} 'see this? That's you, that is'. Oh, are you pulling a funny face now? Oh that's horrible, ohh hho stop it now. DB: You know that song - da de da, de da da da- that's your favourite, that is. That's your favourite number one song of all time. Oh, you've had a haircut. Hairrrrcut. Haircuuutt. RN: You see that Theo Kojak? That's you, that is. DB: {spits} See that bit of flob? RN: Yes. DB: That's you, that is. RN: No, that's your swimming pool in your garden. Oh look, there's your mum. {stands and pretends to swim} DB: Well, I think no one can be in any doubt that we have had tonight a most rich and enlightening debate. Er, Professor Lewis, thankyou very much. RN: {stands up straight} Thankyou. {pretends to swim again} My channel on you tube :    / alanheath   is one of the most prolific from Poland. With almost one film per day, one may be forgiven for thinking I do nothing else but I do have a day job as well. I have produced more than 1,400 original films, most in English but also in Polish, French, Italian and Spanish. My big interest in life is travel and history but I have also placed films on other subjects Please feel free to ask questions in the public area or to comment on things you disagree with. Sometimes there are mistakes because I speak without preparation. If I see the mistakes myself, I make this clear in the text. Please also leave a star rating! There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- http://www.ceepackaging.com - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focusing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine! Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region and http://www.ceepackaging.com gives a pretty good idea where future films are going to come from! Every packaging trade fair is a new excuse to make another film!