Harold Wilson Night part 4
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- On Saturday 16 February 2013, BBC Parliament devoted its Saturday evening to a series of programmes about Harold Wilson - on the 50th anniversary of Wilson's election as Leader of the Labour Party. www.bbc.co.uk/p...
This part contains half of Wilson's brief career as a chat show host. In October 1979 Wilson was invited to host two editions of 'Friday Night, Saturday Morning'. Transmitted on 12 and 19 October, Wilson's sympathetic biographer Ben Pimlott notes "he was not judged a success". This is the second of the programmes. Wilson's guests are Robin Day, Winston Churchill (grandson of the former PM), Mike Yarwood, and Mary Wilson.
As an American, I found this rather charming! Harold Wilson is one the former PM's that I have an interest in and this was a nice departure for him to try something new and different outside of the realm of politics. If the other episode is ever uploaded, I'd love to watch that as well.
Hi Scott, what do you make of our former Prime Ministers?
Harold Wilson reminds me of Barack Obama. He doesn't says all the right things and is a very smooth political operator. But at the end of the day the policies he campaigned on are not implemented,promise of a new progressive policy direction in reality equates to more of the same and ultimately no difference compared to his immediate peers from the opposition party that's true of Wilson and Obama. Harold MacMillan Anthony Eden and Ted Heath all governed about the same as Wilson. Both the Bushes and Clinton govern the same as Obama. Wilson and Obama came into office promising a much different direction yet there was no discernible difference in the way they govern. Wilson comes off as enjoying the day today my new show of politics. He reminds me of a sleazy car salesman someone who is very difficult to pin down... yet when the pressure is on him and he has to deliver he consistently fail or just never brought a solution to the table. As much as I personally dislike Ted Heath and would much rather have a meal with Wilson compared to heat there's something about Ted that comes off as very authentic and passionate. His work with the European Union/mRk3t is a good example.
I'm also an American and in my opinion one of your prime minister's was the most consequential politician in the second half of the 20th century. Margaret Thatcher. Americans don't realize how captured the economy of Great Britain was from the 50s to the 1970s... and also I know he has a poor reputation over there but I really have a soft spot for Tony Blair. I think his policies and kind of progressive / pre-market
That's how you set the mood for an evening of spirited and intellectual conversation: a couple having sex, then slowly panning to Harold Wilson. In this lousy era of political rhetoric and cheap TV, the best you can hope for is someone getting a handy under the table, then panning to Michael Howard.
Every era is a lousy era of political rhetoric and cheap tv. It is what it is.
@@brianwarden7250 Yeah, but at least back in the day politicians spoke in complete sentences and voters didn't hold that against them. (Granted, I'm writing that from the US, where political rhetoric is, like, half a step up from "Show how important you are by whipping it out and waving it at the audience," so I'm a bit jaded.)
@@insertclevername4123 I agree. There is depth here that signifies a more intelligent and informed audience here. I think we are getting dumber. lol
What a great upload.
I thought he did just fine hosting the chat show... just one or two points slipped his mind providing evidence that his memory was fading.
Remember he was not a professional broadcaster and when chatting to Robin Day you can see how more relaxed and smooth Day is on camera.
This Friday Night, Saturday Morning was transmitted during the infamous ITV strike of 1979 which caused ITV to be off the air From Friday 10th August until Wednesday 24th October 1979. So, this programme would have gained huge ratings, as there was only BBC One and BBC Two available.
Thank you so much for posting these videos.
Mike Yarwood was light entertainment royalty at that time and it is gratifying to see his actual modesty in the face of the real thing. Which, it turned out, was a mark of the man.
Harold wilson was right about China
31:16
Indeed he was a very perceptive man.
Wilson already had Alzheimer's by 1975, so hosting a chat show was a mistake.
I miss the likes of Sir Robin Day. There aren't any journalists left like him. A product of a better era: extremely bright, direct, not afraid to ask confrontational questions, yet never rude.
The opening titles are the most hilariously ’70s thing I’ve ever seen.
wilson with yarwood pure gold
Mike Yarwood, not just a great impressionist, but a great satirist and comedian. When I listen to Robin Day sucking in his breath in the middle of sentences and Yarwood's hilarious mimicry I know where Darth Vader's laboured breathing comes from - Yarwood's and Sir Robin Day's estates should be claiming intellectual property rights from George Lucas for plagiarism
Mike Yarwood got a wonderful reception
Well the younger Churchill got it right about Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. But then we all knew it would be that way, even those British liberals and left-wingers most strongly supporting Mugabe.
No one in my memory has ever supported Mugabe.
Honestly not that bad, he did pretty decently although having a experienced interviewer in the room with him probably made him look worse in comparison.
Can one imagine panellists on BBC Question Time today smoking cigars?
I'd only ever seen snippets of this that we're used to trot out the myth that this was a total car crash. I don't think it was. There were moments where his inexperience as an interviewer, plus the onset of dementia, made it look amateurish. Notwithstanding those moments, I enjoyed watching this and learned more about twentieth century politics from the insight of all the guests.
i guess I'm kind of randomly asking but do anyone know of a good place to stream newly released movies online ?
@Huxley Ronin I use FlixZone. Just search on google for it :)
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Could anyone imagine Margaret Thatcher having a show like this after she left Downing Street ? She could have had Michael Heseltine, Neil Kinnock and Arthur Scargill as guests, I don't think !!!
Thatcher displayed an arrogant persona after leaving office. I don't think she'd be a good fit for a show host. John Prescott would have been a good talk show host.
Lord Kinnock betrayed the miners. Scargill was the best ally Thatcher could have had.
Requires a sense of humor.
Boris Johnson should try his hand at this shit.
Embarrassing 😂😂
What an unpleasant snob Robin Day came across as when Mike Yarwood was on. Winston Churchill came across as a very pleasant man.
Churchill was a traitor.
I remember seeing Wilson presenting the week before and it was truly awful.
Where's Sir Robin's "bowtie"?
alphabetaxenonzzzcat privatised by Mrs. Thatcher.
He must have just been granted membership of Garricks hence the salmon & cucumber tie.
@@roddyteague6246 I see.
Do you see the way the men all stood up when Mary came into the room . Our country has changed so much it us so sad I'm 65 and I've had enough of it all
At my school - not private- we all stood up when a teacher entered the class room. It showed respect. But also when we were protesting against an unfair and arbitrary rule was imposed on us by the headmistress, we showed part of our displeasure by not standing for the teachers. No aggression .
I'm not sure I would have stopped with that blonde lady to switch the telly on to watch Harold Wilson.
Bizarre
The best one of this series was the episode where Wilson interviewed his ex-cabinet Minister, Tony Benn. There was obviously no love lost between the two men. Wilson was barely civil to Benn, and the interview degenerated into
Benn and Wilson hurling insults at one another. One of the most surreal things I've watched on television.
Ok ... Trumps tie is too long - but ...
Trump is a humorless and dullard and this is 79.
Poor Harold. He clearly was not cut out to be an interviewer. Even Robin Day looks embarrassed and to cap it all off, Mike Yarwood cant do his impressions because of laryngitis!
I think he was already starting to suffer from the dementia which destroyed his life.I find it rather sad.
@@thedativecase9733 Spot on
I thought he did rather well for someone who was NOT a professional broadcaster or interviewer. Unlike most interviewers he had a treasure of experience and knowledge to share about the topics he was covering.
A great effort.
That is the cringiest thing I have ever seen.