My secret pleasure - listening to the great northern teacher , story teller, historian ,playwrite author and so much more that is Mr Alan Bennett

“Shops selling what people really want, rather than what they can be persuaded to want”. Such a great phrase.

I love Alan Bennett so much. He always get it so right.

"out-of-the-way mustards"

Some people make the world a better place by jus being in it Bennet is one of so few.

Dear Alan, I rated this film snippet 'AWSOME' because there wasn't an 'VERY PLEASANT AND ENJOYABLE' rating. So pleased to be on earth the same time as you. Ian, Leeds

Loved this and enjoyed the brief commentary re: shoppers and shopping.

The seedy shops, herbalists and second hand books; classic Bennett.

8.00 That is my mum's old kitchenware shop. La Cucina. My first job.

Alan Bennett saved me from Shakespeare at school because he spoke my language - I love him!

Wot a miserable bastard ! I love him !!

property developers have too much to answer for.

...and a Yorkshire Man 'to Boot', love him in Harrogate I've heard tell...😉🙏🍻

Alan sounds more "posh" in this video than we are used to today.

Ah, the specialty shops.

I enjoyed seeing the County Arcade, and love Alan Bennett, but was wondering why he didn't show Thornton's arcade too with the mechanical clock that I loved to go and see with my Mum as a child on our visits to Leeds. I've been in Australia since March, '67. Three visits back, '87 after 20yrs, then '91 and last visit in '98. In '87 I could see where all the new things added since I left, had already had a chance to age. A lot more rubbish around than there used to be because of all the fast food places we didn't have then, except for fish and chips, and weeds everywhere in the cracks in the pavements and at the bases of brick walls on the housing estates.

What a treat

'how sad modern life is' in most of UK and few other similar corners of the world.. not everywhere is like this - even if it's been asked to become.. And of course shops and tastes do not appear (and disappear) out of the blue - Bennet just scrapes the surface here..

Building Sights.

Is BBC Elstree production still around ? Good idea

Corsets are coming back, especially among the more kinky girls out there.

I'm a Thornton's Arcade man myself.

sights

Can anybody identify the music on Alan Bennett's tour de force

Can anyone tell me the name of the song played throughout the segment ?

un-tuk = for

What a curmudgeon. Alan Bennett even manages to feel miserable when his favourite shopping arcade has been beautifully restored and brought back to life with commercially successful shops.

"lovely lovely shopping"....how sad modern life is

First gay rabbi. 1978.