Peter Ackroyd's London: the great fire and bombing (part 1).

[Schlittenfahrer93]

Before 66 most of Londonds housing consisted of half-timbered buildings...too bad whole medieval London burned down...but because of this fire and the new firesafe architecture built after that happening, London couldn't completely burn down like Frankfurt a.M. in ww2, where was still a medieval city center.

[roglowe]

666.......... the devils work

[MrRambo4]

About the London`s great fire from 1666 it`s funny that this thing what is horrible for people that time is some times this burning day a good thing to let it be a history in the futures and still it is over 345 years almost 346 years when it has happend and still is a huge history now than that time!

[jffugly]

0:13, Twin Towers??

[specials6]

o dear

[redbrian3655]

...."my parmesan cheese"...... Oh Thank God!

[VGRetro]

Why are they interviewing Samuel Pepys? I mean, come on... Actors playing the real historic people involved and saying things that come directly from the people's real accounts?... That is pretty awesome.

[marmadukesymesparker]

At least Pepys's parmesan cheese was OK.

[GivenchyParisFr]

so bad London burned, it may was today the first visited city in the world ahead of paris if it wasnt burned down, many great chapells and walls burned, like the ancient St Paul cathedral ! ★★★★★

[eyrespie]

were leang about this and kings and qweens!

[AirdrieUnitedDaft]

hahaha the narrator cant say his "R's" :L:L

[thekorksta]

@AirdrieUnitedDaft He is not only the narrator, he is the author of many great books on London's history. It is pretty funny though.

[7855waldo]

Finally, I have heard someone pronounce "Pepys" ("Peeps"? Did I hear that correctly?).

This is the curse of the autodidact. We never heard the names that we see in print.

[transonicbuoy1]

It is always amusing when actors play the roles of famous figures in programmes like this - and then do a soliloquy to the camera. Still, that probably wasn`t Peter`s choice. Ackroyd is a rare example of a man who writes about geniuses - and is one himself. A great man and one of the finest English writers. We are privileged to live in the same times as he, an age when the truly great writers are gone. But Peter Ackroyd.

[GusF]

The "original" St. Paul's Cathedral was actually the fourth cathedral built on the same spot over the course of about a thousand years.

[roobansx3]

good video I realy liked it but why these duudes dressed like 400 years old people

[abbas1009]

sad

[transonicbuoy1]

It`s astonishing Pepys and the other fella are still alive - lucky to have escaped the inferno.

[OmegaWolf747]

It's an eerie coincidence that the Great Fire and the blitz both happened in the first week of September.

[searchandbrowsmillio]

could somone give me the name for the person who made londons streets wider and planned most of the londons land marks ??

[eucalyptuspauciflora]

It's possible that you might be thinking of Christopher Wren, who built many churches, the Monument and St Pauls. However, he was not able to widen the streets as he wished. Joseph Bazalgette (1819 - 1891) is an option - he did get to widen some streets such as Northumberland Avenue, and constructed three bridges across the Thames and, famously, the Embankment to carry away London's sewage.

London never got the grand-plan treatmentment of Paris, under Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann.

[searchandbrowsmillio]

@eucalyptuspauciflora

Joseph Bazalgette that what i was looking for

thank you so much for helping me , and could you please upload videos about these great men ,if its available

thank you so much again

[transonicbuoy1]

Ackroyd is as camp as fiery hell - an inflammmatory genuis.