Evan Davis Freerunning - Made in Britain - BBC Two

More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0125v5k BBC presenter Evan Davis is chased across the rooftops of BBC Television Centre. Made in Britain starts 9pm, Monday 20th June on BBC Two.

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[bodilidily]

his body double has different colour hair - FAIL.

[adamtow3rs]

Poor old Beeb centre :( we'll miss you

[Runrome]

what a crudy intro typical modern day bbc all gimics and sensaltionsim little on fact and substance

[Runrome]

Does any one have any footage of the 1970s series of the same title?. It run between the late sixties and early seventies

[m1trekker]

@advers1078 Yes, good point there is a overseas market to sell things like Mini Coopers, etc. I just think the West has come off worst in the globalisation with China, China has a huge trade surplus and booming economy and most of the West has massive debts and recession. I hope you are right and Britain can sell more overseas, I just think countries are all nationalistic in the end, I hope you are right and I am wrong.

[advers1078]

@m1trekker my perspective though whether wrong or right is that people prefer branded goods just like how you would rather buy coca cola rather then something else, if Britain specialised in high skilled manufacturing then the wealthier china gets the greater the opportunity to sell goods at. I was just reading a great article online about how the Chinese prefer western products rather then what they deem poor quality in their country, interesting how the mind works, but maybe your right.

[m1trekker]

@advers1078 I take a slightly different view, I think China's economy has been kick started thorugh JVs and offshoring but China's biggest market is China and I think we shouldn't underestimate the pace of change in China. It is a bit of a fools paradise to believe that China and the West are segmented in terms of manufacturing. I see a lot of low value production coming back to the UK future particularly as you acknowledge wages are rising in the China.

[advers1078]

@m1trekker The growth of china has been solely driven by the shifting of western manufacturing business, rather than generating business it simple has migrated them, enticed by low wages its in business interest to have work forces their without low skilled manufacturing(low wages) china is too big to support itself hence why Britain can benefit from high skilled manufacturing, I hope you understand what I'm trying to say, since I'm out of characters.

[advers1078]

@m1trekker I think you kind of missed the point of the show, it is true that china is become more skilled and educated and your right their graduates will not want to work in low skilled manufacturing, but I think the point Evan Davis was trying to make is that china can only grow in its current state, producing low skilled manufacturing, if it wants to achieve high skilled manufacturing than minimum wages would increase and skilled wise there'd be no point in shift work forces there.

[m1trekker]

@MB0016 But if you look at the number of graduates being produced by China & India it is way in excess of UK graduate levels, I am sure they will not want to go into factories and mass produce items. I think this exclusivity of innovation and creativity that Evan was talking about is rapidly eroding also. China & India are pushing in these areas already with vast software talent in Bangalore and the Chinese developing their own high speed trains and planes.

[MB0016]

@m1trekker for the same reason you cant mass produce in the UK is the why you cant specialise in china, Education. In the Uk most people have A-levels/degree, this means that they can do higher skilled tasks, however it also means that they will expect to be paid more money for their work. so only  "high value production" can be profitable. In china most of the work force hasnt been to collage so isnt that skilled, and there for can only work low value product but they demand less pay.