BBC - Who Do You Think You Are - Bruce Forsyth 1/4

[frickadele]

The reason the parks were built .... was not for the benefit of the poor but for the rich. Central Park, for example, was built... in the richer section of NYC.... just so the rich had some green to walk in. The poor couldn't afford to buy tickets to ride to the park so they didn't benefit at all. To say that these parks were built for the poor and help stop drunkenness...is a lie. But then again...the world revolves around the rich... doesn't it. The poor?....fuck'um.

[frickadele]

He's been a professional ham...

since he was 14.

Wow....Think of all those people

who actually work for a living!

[GEL0128]

Lovely to see this....I am in Canada but am originally from Belfast...so nice to see the gardens again after more than 40 years away. I remember watching Bruce Forsythe on telly when I was little in Belfast and in England. He used to MC the show The London Palladium

[SuperStarsNStripes]

Spinster originally referred to wool spinning, which was a profession many single unmarried women undertook since ancient history. However it later came to also mean any single unmarried woman.

[teufelstaub]

@SuperStarsNStripes Right you are,and the -ster/xter ending denoted the female in this craft or trade.Brewer/brewster,baker/ba­xter,spinner/spinster,weaver/w­ebster etc.Dexter however denotes the right hand side,with sinister being the left!

[1990smithers]

what a strange man

[TheMatthewrox]

his career started in 1939 age 11

[goaliegal31]

Thanks for uploading this!! The American version is no where near as entertaining or educational!

[camino4050]

Thank you for uploading this so I have the opportunity to watch the programme in Sweden. Greeetings from Sweden.

[GirLInSecondLife]

Love how they called single women "spinsters" in those days - she was 28! lol

[cywyhot]

@GirLInSecondLife Love how they called single women "spinsters" in those days - she was 28! lol 29.

Of course age had nothing to do with it--just spinning one's own wool. Did kids spin the wool for married women?

This is the third case of bigamy mentioned on this series--this one and two on the US show, that I've seen so far. It was remarkably easy to pull off with no central database. I heard of another case with a friend's ancestors with a wife/family in China & Hawaii.

[angkangpilipino]

thanks for uploading!

[thaisekine]

Thank you for uploading. I live in Japan and this is the only way for me to watch this interesting series :)