Jeremy Clarkson Meets the Neighbours: Basque Country The FULL Episode
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- In this series, produced by Chrysalis Entertainment in 2002, which later became part of the production company that makes Fifth Gear, Jeremy Clarkson drives a 1960s Jaguar E-Type around six European countries to discover just how different their lifestyles are to those in Britain, and whether the reality matches the stereotypical perception of each country. In this episode, Jeremy's exploring the Basque Country and makes it to the Basque Games in southwest France and samples the nightlife in San Sebastian. A bombing by Basque separatist terrorists ETA shocks him, before he visits the Rioja festival, getting pelted with tomatoes and wine.
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Enjoy this classic Clarkson series for the first time on UA-cam! Produced by Chrysalis Entertainment in 2002, which later became part of the production company that makes Fifth Gear. Make sure you subscribe to be the first to know when the other episodes are uploaded.
please keep the vintage Clarkson content coming!
Pretty sure this is "in Spain" not only the Basque Country. Video title is wrong
Very nice. Thank you very much.
@@nixxxon18 I came here to say the same. Here in Galicia I do not live in Basque country.
Did you guys do the series "Speed"?
My auntie married a Basque man some forty years ago.
I spent six weeks with them and his elderly parents in their mountain home some years ago. No running water, no gas or electricity, all meals cooked on open fire.
The most incredible experience of my life with a backdrop that is the stuff of dreams. Proud people with deep rooted family traditions.
I adore the culture, the people, the country.
Nice !
Here in the UK this coming winter most Brits will have the same experience, but it will be for six months haha
No running water, no gas or electricity. And a 3 h siesta every day.. the simple life. They don't want to work so hard and have all the luxury things like us, big houses new cars etc.
@@mrm1885 While you're working hard to keep up with the Jones' they have the biggest luxury of them all, and the one you're missing out on. Time.
@@CaptainHoratioPugwash Couldn't have said that better,and living in countrysides,which i would kill to do the same,today...
Every time I look for these, its too short and flipped. This is so great to get the full episode. Sadly we never got to see this when it came out, as I live in the US. I've been a massive fan of Clarkson for the last 16 years or so since discovering him. Fifth Gear, Please leave this up and don't delete it. Thank you.
I wish Jeremy would redo all of these with updates etc....very interesting stuff
James May kind of does that now in his "Our man in...." series
So we can see how much worse everything he has gotten?
Indeed!
Jewemee. He's called Clarkson, dolt.
It would be awesome indeed, however, a lot changed in the past 20 years, Jeremy would have to endure the wrath of the woke, a.k.a. antifun😉😁
Haha the scene at the toll booth didn't end like I thought it would. Did anyone else expect him to just drive under it? You could clearly see that his Jag was much shorter than the gate arm. He could've driven right under it haha
Great to see these old episodes... Makes me feel old as I was young when they came out haha
What a way to word it ! I feel the same.
Don't worry you're not old. These are just good Tv shows
watching this episode i get a feeling that jeremy might have been responsible for a fair share of brexit voters.
Hehee, was thinking the same, indeed
Isnt there a running gag that portugal counts as east europa because they are so poor?
@@emergcon never heard of
He definitely prepared the British world for the lies of our clown bboris the Russian tadpole
Which is ironic, since Jeremy himself is a staunch remainer
The moment at 9:48 with Groove Armada and the footage is an absolutely perfect piece of media
Great series. Thanks for posting. Can't believe how long it's been life is very short.
great to see these older shows coming out of the BBC archive
Older shows that we already paid for
A lot of people don't really understand where the Brexit sentiment came from. This came out before there were any migration issues at all and its plain to see what was wrong. I used to work driving wide loads around France and Spain in 1997. This is how I remember things being.
@@horsenuts1831 What a load of rubbish, a lot of EU money was as is spent at the detriment of other nation's industries -the fishing example in this program just one example. Another was the mass immigration of low paid workers which stifled wages in the UK for decades. Who wants to fund their own decline? Not the UK so we voted out, which has outraged the socialist lemmings somewhat hasn't it? Shame. 🤣🤣
@@horsenuts1831 incorrect. The UK voted in 1975 to join a trade bloc. In 1993 at Maastricht all that changed without another vote. So we had to wait for time to take its course.
@@horsenuts1831 If the EU is such an open, borderless, benevolent union which wants to trade with the world to benefit its population, then why on earth does it not act like it at all and it has instead "built a wall", is vindictively attacking the UK which they could instead be making good trade relations with so that all EU nations could trade with the UK profitably? If sabotaging trade with the UK on purpose just as a political extremist evil revenge hurts the UK so much, then how on earth could it not be hurting the EU just as much?
If there was mutually beneficial trade before, both benefitting as the EU always says is the case, then how can one bureaucratic change suddenly change that whole 'truth' and make it beneficial for the EU to destroy that previously absolutely mutually beneficial trade?
If you would've suggested earlier that trade between EU-member-UK and the rest of the EU should be decreased and made more difficult and this will benefit the EU you would've been absolutely skewered by EU politicians, the media, everyone. They would've shouted at you, calling you a nazi, and explained that all trade and open borders are good. But now that the UK left them and refused to be dictated to, robbed, and filled with Eu's corruption, that whole fundamental philosophy and political basic truth of theirs suddenly magically disappeared. Now they practice the exact opposite.
The EU has revealed its true face.
It is easy to prove that the EU is just a big dictatorial criminal organization run by a mafia of elites through corruption. Any good sounding political ideological benevolence they spew is just propaganda, and not true at all. It's all fake. The real purpose for the EU and their goal is just more power and money laundering through corruption schemes, and one of the many ways they enable that criminal system is through spreading their propaganda. If they were in any way trying to decrease or control corruption there would be some kind of agency, mechanisms to fight corruption, and a very high priority in everything would be to have a system to decrease the possibility of corruption already at the fundamental level. Especially at the very top. But we all can clearly see that does not exist at all. And that not existing is proof that the EU's goal and fundamentals are rotten.
I already knew what the EU is because my family members have been in very high level positions in the EU leadership. And naturally have therefore met and gotten to know a very wide range of all kinds of EU elites (some at the very, very top) and people who hover around that as part of the ecosystem. I have seen their true nature, their attitudes, what they really do.
@@pistonburner6448 "vindictively attacking the UK"
Are you a moron?
"The EU has revealed its true face."
Why don't you complain to teacher? It appears you have the mental maturity of a 7-year-old.
"I already knew what the EU is because my family members have been in very high level positions in the EU leadership"
No they weren't.
@@horsenuts1831embarrassing leftist we haven’t actually had a true Brexit out scummy politicians have betrayed us a true Brexit is exponentially better for the UK there is no doubt about it controlling our own country and we just joined and trade union bigger than the EU it won’t be decades and we will never rejoin
Thank you for posting this series.
What a great TV format. I Love this!
Just waited for the jaag to just drive under the barrier😄
Ditto
The card game they are playing has a variant called "All-Fours" in my country. The similarity is in the pairing of partners, and the codes to tell what cards you have or if your hand is good or bad. It is not, however, 4 games in 1.
Funny thing is in 19:11 his car is low enough to go through the under that gate 😅
Spain started from a much lower base than the rest of Europe. It was in the UK's interest while in the EU to ensure that all member countries were brought up to a level that would enable us to sell high value goods to them. The Spanish by the way, stop charging motorway tolls once the road has been paid for. That would never happen in the UK, in or out of the UK. Spain now subsidises major projects via the EU in Central Europe. The aim is to float all boats. Jeremy's economics are a bit 19th century. Also Spaniards work harder than most Brits...look it up. We are the ones with a productivity problem. British - and other European construction companies - have benefited hugely from the rise in living standards in Spain over the past couple of decades. And by the way, the tomatoes used in the tomatina are not saleable.
The UK never understood what the EU did for them. Leaving the common market they helped to create is a bloody shame and an economic disaster for the UK in the end.
EU is a fascist scam
I'd not seen this on TV... When I had a TV. Ut thank God for UA-cam. This is very informative.
A Scot in a skirt says “I can throw a rock” The Basque says “hold my beer”
Early 2000s Europe is like a time capsule you acutely see Europeans on the streets
still can in some places, just have to go into the country
dude in Spain we live on the steets , specially on summer
it was a beautiful decade, and it's all gone
The best times, never coming back. Too brainwashed and shallow now.
@@pedroSilesiai’m sad I won’t be able to experience these times, i’m 21 now and look back at these with fondness
thanks for this, really enjoyed so un PC its funny i don't think he would get away with it now a days lol but i would love to see him do it and some banging tunes as well
Such a wonderful program love it
once again>>> thank you so much for uploading this!
Holy cow that tomato party is like a scene from a dystopian science fiction book, we really are in Y2K
I would absolutely love to see Jeremy Clarkson do a re-visit on "meeting the neighbours" and see what the reception is with these EU countries, especially since so much has happened over the past 20 years - Brexit, COVID, several British prime ministers, to name a few topics.
I wish the same thing,only that nowadays censorship and political corretness would compromise seriously such an adventure.
Same, I'm curious if the internet/social media has corrupted the youth and places like these are losing their traditions.
At the moment Spain is suffering a staggering youth unemployment at abput 30% and in 2008 the economical crisis hit them hard. A blow they really haven’t come over yet.
It seems whatever Jeremy touched or touches turns into entertainment gold lovely episode 🤣
You must know that your earlobe keep growing, gosh yours are huge, and so it goes for all of us
The music is a perfect snapshot in time!
Jeremy being all Brexity before Brexit
yet weirdly hes totally against brexit 😂
Yeah, before the vote he was telling people to remain...wonder who paid him off all those years after he made complete sense in this program...really sad honestly because GB got screwed for decades by this sort of crap and he damned well knew it.
@@hendo337 he didnt as he forgot to mention that we got bigger farming subsidies than spain, for obvious reasons and a huge rebate every year . thats been since thatchers time as we were never fully in EU barely half
@@yrma_fletcher8953 not weirdly, he actually has a brain.
@@callumhardy5098 it is weirdly if you consider how dated his comments then are now.
11:35 "Excuse me, beardy" 😂
In the French Basque Country with Cuban background music?
The most shocking bit of it all is realising Jeremy speaks a little French :)
20 years' old - time slips by.
More cause the peseta was still there,25 at least.
Peseta was still used in 2001 so more like 22 years for OP
Going to the Tomatina de Buñol is like getting arc eye from clumsy welding. You do it once.
Considering this episode was supposed to be about Basque Country, I wonder if Jeremy and his producers realised that Madrid isn't Basque. Most of this episode isn't about Basque Country, there's more about Madrid and other areas..
When this episode was originally aired on the BBC it was billed/titled as Spain, not the Basque Country.
Not sure why fifth gear have named it as the latter in this case.
Very similar to an Israeli card game I’ve played - more complicated though... Kare Kupe or sth, do please forgive spelling. An amazing game where you play in pairs and give one another secret signals.... such fun when you get into it 👍
HILARIOUS!!!!!
Top Gear, with Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, was the GREATEST PRODUCTION, in the BBC's dismal history!!!
When these 3 left the BBC, the WHOLE WORLD FOLLOWED them, and now, they're even BETTER!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for uploading this
This series should be called: Clarkson Mocks the Neighbors.
That basque coast. San sebastian, biaritz. Epic region. So is all of spains north coast.
Jeremy in one episode of Top Gear did a rant on Spain "Give us back our fish"
Jeremy Clarkson is the typical British or northern European who can't stop ranting on Spain every time he goes there.
@@aitortilla5128 can't stop ranting and can't stop going in Spain ever summer too
I know for a fact that he regrets not being part of the EU any more!
Drove from Tours to San Sebastián in 1969. Love Bosque food.
1:08
This is a perfect scene. 10/10
Sounds like I got some Basque DNA
I spent a Glorious week near Estella Spain in 2004. I fell in love with them, but they still aren't too happy with the Americans. Being a neutral country during WW2, The Americans could only free the French side, not the Spanish side. Still, with my Spanish speaking guide we traveled around to the great cities and spent the rest of the time in a small villa. I want to return.
Titled “Basque Country,” but rants about Spain for 20 min
Love this! Thank you!
Dream came true, Jeremys complaints listened. Britain brexited the EU, so no more worries about the Spanish roads, I guess now its all perfect in the UK, as you don't need to spend crazy money on us 🤣😂
Yes, everything has been great in the UK ever since Brexit. There's not one person complaining anymore. And u learnt your lesson, you had to cancel the Tomatina and closed down your roads, now that UK is not paying for it all.
Love Spain ❤ and sorry that stupid people took shots at you.
Jeremy Clarkson was on the remainer side in 2016.
Without this massive head you could go under ramp 😁
he was right though wasn't he in the german one...about how they're 'doing it again'....would love him to do a modern day version of this series.
what exactly are we doing again?
@@39mdg92 talking in your sleep huh?
The EU is the Fourth Reich by design
@@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 right...because in the Third Reich we had a council of European Nations that could overimpose German legislation and we were paying for everyones lovely new shit and household deficit until the Führer couldn't take it anymore and capped himself?
Are you listening to yourself?
Edit: now you've deleted the comment saying the EU is designed to be the Fourth Reich?
The Euro wasn't even a German Idea, but a prerequisite by the French under Francois Mitterand to allow German Unification, because the french were worried that a fiscally independent unified Germany with the Deutsche Mark would just overpower them economically.
We merely embraced further European integration, yet still everyone is nagging us due to their inferiority complex.
He was right but only difference Germany is still occupied by the US.
We had a large print of Picasso's Gernika at middle school. It was on the wall by the assembly hall, next to the teachers offices. If you were naughty, you were made to stand by it, all lunch break. We called the corridor 'Death Alley'. Now I know what the painting was all about.
Last of the mohicans music in there near the end haha
What a great show. I had no idea the Nazis bombed a town in the Basque country after Franco gave them the nod - assholes. And San Sebastian looks like a riot of a place.
Never heard of Guernica? Picasso made it famous
@@howwwwwyyyyy I'm an ignorant Australian.
San Sebastian was burned almost completely by the British after Napoleon was defeated. Only one street remains intact.
38:14 Acting like the Schengen Area hadn't been in existence since 1995. You don't need customs officers in a customs union that has no border controls.
Jeremy is so real.
I think one of the things that makes Clarkson “likeable” he can be very self-deprecating.
Wonderful series - oh what the time have changed.....Spain is a big net contributor for the EU now and the British are out. Sadly. That Clarkson always comes across "we paid for everything here" was satire at that time...and those chicken came home to roost - him too. But he showed the Basque culture very well, they are special. A good friend of mine is a proud Basque, we spend a lot of time in the region. The food is so good everywhere, the quality and taste, they are proud of it too.
Top infrastructure, roads trwins bussed public spaces, .
. Money well spent 😊😊.
I think clarkson and his e type would have drove under that barrier........ well maybe if he ducked!
That's what I was thinking too
I’m sure that the Guardia Civil would have loved it.
brilliant
promontory is such an epic tune.
Great episode. Our fish is still being pillaged even though we supposedly came out the EU.
Yeah well get over it, you people pillaged entire regions for centuries, so some decades is fine
And whose fault is that?
You didn't actually expect anything to change, did you? Has the British Government spent any significant money improving your local roads now that they aren't paying all this money to the EU that Spain was using for theirs? Mine are worse.
What share of that £100,000,000 subsidy did the Cornish fishermen get between 2020 and 2022? £0.00.
Did the British Government lower their taxes to compensate for that loss now that they aren't giving all this money to the EU? No of course not.
Almost like Brexit was a total nonsense from the start. Just need the Irish passport office to hurry up so I can British exit whenever I want LOL.
You guys stayed in too long, the damage was already done. Should have never joined.
@@CaptainHoratioPugwashTime for a new Guy Fawkes, if you know what I'm saying.
17:25 Jeremy being a very hard brexiteer
what is the music at 37:27? Vaguely like plain chant... lovely!
figured it out! Novio by Moby
The Jackal had more problem crossing that checkpoint...LOL
That e type should fit nicely under the barrier. Adding extra Jag Ness. By not paying at all.
"Ooo - what's this? The EU cash lorry?" 😂 You'd get cancelled for putting this out today. Thank christ for the early 2000s, when we still knew how to have a laugh.
Jeremy makes fun of Spain for 15 minutes
Love this serie!
whats the name of the song playing when he's sitting on the beach 10 minutes in? Does anyone know?
At the river by Groove Armada.
At The River by Groove Armada
THANK YOU!
How ironic! The BBC puting Jeremy's work on the Fifth Gear channel.
Watching this as an american who wants a three hour lunch with chicken and wine and a siesta
Would have cleared the gate without paying…well the car would.
This was very Anthony Bordain
Bonita serie, cuanto amor por España. Por eso queremos tanto a los ingleses, somos como hermanos 😘😘😘😆😆😆
Bonita ironía xD.
With all those tomatoes about, I wonder how many humans are ground up in the truck's gubbins without anyone realising... 😅
I d love to hear what he has got say about the EU from his perspective as a farmer....
Basque People, one of a kind!
Jezza still a King back in the days.
The card game Jeremy plays sounds like it was the inspiration for the Star Trek game of Tongo played by the Ferenghi.
Stop looking at 2002 through the eyes of 2022. It used to be ok to talk shit and be edgy.
Also being critical of some policies doesn’t mean anti
Isn’t that why we love him and the original Top Gear boys in general? Shit on everyone, everyone laughs, shit on yourself for good measure. Its a simple formula, or was. And anyone watching these uploads are not finding them by accident. These should be all fans of what we used to know and love, and still love.
Woke Alert!!!
@@RoderikvanReekum that’s not how woke works, unfortunately. Woke is all the brexiteer bs lol
"Also being critical of some policies doesn’t mean anti". I agree with you but the old clichés on lazy Spaniards (which are a disgrace when you know how hard Spanish people work for often very little) certainly didn't help foster the European spirit in the UK...
@@Tanirogalarn true, but stereotypes were/are part of life. It’s hard to get 5 people to agree on dinner. So to get 23 countries or however many are in the EU to shed their centuries of ideas for the greater good its a tall order
@17:32 "Three and a half thousand million pounds" 🤔🤔🤔🤔
u are amazing bud
Oh yes... perfect TV for me 👍
Plainly the best episode IMO.
Say what you want about Clarkson, he's had one hell of an interesting ride.
there is where you hit the nail right on the head; vask region has been all rebuilt and upgraded with european money signed on spain's bill (same as catalonia) and them wanting to leave the table and head off before the bill is to be paid is as rude as absurd and utterly unacceptable. no matter how a few feel about it neither the noise they make on world media, it wouldn't even matter if they start killing innocent people again.
I can't believe they killed a councilor. Unless councilors have an enormous amount of power in Spain.
Das ist ja komisch, du denkst als ob du ein Spanier wärest ... da irrst du dich sehr, du kennst überhaupt nicht das Baskenland.
Europeans also destroyed it. So they fixed a problems they caused lol
@@melikecomedy perhaps, but just let them sign the bill by themselves too.
@@gontzallekzeit2050 living in a democracy is accepting diversity of opinions.
Still, Jezza supported Remain.
what's the music at 4:05
Jeremy please continue to be Jeremy!!!
Love this :D
Basque Women are beautiful
Eta blew up my car at madrid airport
How did the Insurance work out ?
Lmao! Please keep it up in everything you do.
Four people were detained and blamed for the killing of that local councillor, in 2002. During detention, they were incommunicado by five days and they reported being brutally tortured by the police (even one of them was sent to hospital during detention), but the judge didn’t care about it and sent them to prison. They spent two years imprisoned, and finally they were acquitted: the only evidence against them was the confession that one of them made to the police during detention, but told to the judge that she made the statement under torture. Judges never investigated what happened during incomunicado detention.
Typical Spain, just like they refuse to acknowledge they dropped chemical bombs on civilians during the Rif war.
20 Years later, anything has changed and everything changed.
Parts are sort of ironic as JC now says the UK should have remained in the EU.
Pure gold!