@@zenbudhism Not for long; an audit is being done to see whether the countryside is racist. What's the betting that they conclude it is? Everything precious to us is, apparently, and must be "diversified."
At 10:03 Sir John is stood not 10 ft from where he was buried ! Delightful man, lovely poetry. Lives on while the world he described has almost entirely vanished.
5.30 onwards...A throng of city bankers, MP's and Foreign Office Civil Servants...They paid their price for their complacency in 1914-but no more than my Grandfather, a Kentish farm labourer.
"The quickest way to start a punch up between 2 literary scholars is to ask them what they think of the poetry of John Betjeman." Philip Larkin ( 1922 - 1985 ). I love Betjeman's ( 1906 - 1984 ) poetry! It is the poetry of a gentlemanly, romantically idyllic society! The poetry of sitting in the purple shade of the old oak trees on a summer's afternoon, while contented with a simpler and less fast paced, purer and more thoroughly contented life!
I have had so much pleasure listening to and reading his wonderful poetry. Sorely missed.
what a world we have lost.
Ivan Hart yes it's so sadly true England is not a happy place of beauty any more lost forever
Beaches and countryside still exist
@@zenbudhism Not for long; an audit is being done to see whether the countryside is racist. What's the betting that they conclude it is? Everything precious to us is, apparently, and must be "diversified."
@@alanwilliams3677 It's up to everyone to fight against what you describe.
I'm open to suggestions. @@erebus79
At 10:03 Sir John is stood not 10 ft from where he was buried ! Delightful man, lovely poetry. Lives on while the world he described has almost entirely vanished.
Sir John was a true Englishman,few of his kind exist today.
As an Asiatic I appreciate sir John betjemann immensely!
5.30 onwards...A throng of city bankers, MP's and Foreign Office Civil Servants...They paid their price for their complacency in 1914-but no more than my Grandfather, a Kentish farm labourer.
Any body got the so called " The lost Betjemans that were not lost but were on channel 4 about 25 years ago , made about 1963?
Still most of it there, but a lost time!
How do you pronounce his name?
betcha-mun
Quite poignant, the last scene, showing him at his burial place.
did he just steal that book at 1:10 ?!! lol
He'd be arrested today for being too English..
"The quickest way to start a punch up between 2 literary scholars is to ask them what they think of the poetry of John Betjeman." Philip Larkin ( 1922 - 1985 ). I love Betjeman's ( 1906 - 1984 ) poetry! It is the poetry of a gentlemanly, romantically idyllic society! The poetry of sitting in the purple shade of the old oak trees on a summer's afternoon, while contented with a simpler and less fast paced, purer and more thoroughly contented life!
Mike Fuller
If someone sked Betjeman about being too English he would probably say "Yes thank goodness!"
What a stupid comment.
@@mikefuller6959 The Past is a Foreign Country. All who became citizens of the Empire - Caribbean, African, were 'English'.