The story of English furniture - Side#1... (BBC Video LaserDisc)

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  @StuMas · 4 years ago

  As a child, I used to find programs like this unbearably boring. Today, I found it very interesting, enlightening and enjoyable. Life might be better if we could live in reverse...?

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• CA

  @CareelBay · 2 years ago

  “Videograms” 😂❤

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• MA

  @maryk446 · 5 years ago

  I bought these VHS tapes for my mother years ago.  They were out of print and cost me an arm and a leg.  But I knew she'd  love them!

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• HE

  @hetedeleambacht6608 · 2 years ago (edited)

  what a great narrator .....a joy to listen to

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• PE

  @Penswordman · 8 months ago

  This is so valuable just because it is a half-century closer to the actual makers. &nbsp;Where would you find a recent generation expert that grew up out of the modern wood-haters? &nbsp;There will Be no Ikea experts in the future, because wood pulp cast in hydrocarbon glues covered in black paint or plastic veneer will have gone back to dust.<br><br>What is it about &quot;specialists&quot; and &quot;experts&quot; though, going back to this era that makes them slightly abuse whatever they&apos;re showing you? &nbsp;Rubbing their acid-embedded from kidney pie hands and fingers over &quot;well-preserved finishes&quot;; —knocking and banging... and the one guy has special pinky rings on so he can lightly scratch everything he comes in contact with. &nbsp;I mean it— pay attention to the &quot;experts&quot; on Antique Roadshow. &nbsp;It looks like half of them are trying to either steal a few molecules from everything they touch or make sure their own DNA is rubbed into the cracks. &nbsp;It&apos;s weird. &nbsp;And then there&apos;s that twit glass expert who plays a little game of holding a rare 16th century stemmed goblet up with the very tips of three fingers high in the air. &nbsp;For what purpose? &nbsp;Just to make everyone uneasy for his own amusement? &nbsp;Or make himself stand out in some way? &nbsp;Not all of them for sure, but there is something deeply psychologically bent up with many of them.

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• WR

  @wryckingbaul8612 · 1 year ago

  Th story English furniture?! <br>Yaaaaaaaaaas! 🥰

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• JJ

  @jj2536 · 7 months ago

  &quot;In these videograms&quot;! &nbsp;its like a program from the 1940s!

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  @HorseyMusic · 6 years ago

  I&apos;d love to see Arthur Negus Enjoys on YouTube. Wonderful TV

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• MA

  @markdavis3392 · 6 years ago

  Great to see this again. Thanks for posting.

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• GO

  @goneysangullies · 4 years ago

  Knowledgeable presenters. Not so on ARS today.

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• RG

  @RGRGJKK · 4 years ago

  Pura vida great documentary I love hand tools made in sheffield England

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• SE

  @sergiobergantino3692 · 4 months ago (edited)

  BBC VIDEO LASERDISC 1987