Griff Rhys Jones is visiting London in this episode of The Greatest Cities in the World – and he is discovering some hidden secrets above and underground of this diverse metropolis of the old world.
British comedian Griff Rhys Jones visits six important metropolises of the world, including New York, London, Rome, Paris, Sydney and Hong Kong. He looks into oddities, traditions and hidden secrets, discovering what makes these cities the greatest in the world.
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I love seeing London and all it's history. Visiting is another matter. It's overpopulated so people are like rats in a sewer and most are too busy rushing around to notice anything around them. I'm always happy to leave and wouldn't live there if you paid me.
i lived in london over 30 years ago and still can't get the horrible taste from my mouth….lovely looking sewage pit
When he said the city was the capital of the greatest empire the world has ever seen, I thought he was in Rome.
Is it just me or does Griff Rhys Jones remind me of an old Hugh Grant in this?
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Again, anything just as long as it’s free to visit. Abysmal
Not a true representation of London atall. He makes you feel everyone knows each other and everyone is so friendly.
I just adore all the old traditions of London that are still kept alive today, would be a poorer city without them!
CITY OF LONDON///OR THE OTHER LONDON/////
A great city👍
What the hell is going on in the background at 15:01 lol
Really good this
The title of this series is debatable. Too exclusionary. Sorry, Welchman.
All pre-Brexit and pre-Covid, of course.
23:18 Beer 🍺 ! Is this documentary of 2007? 38:55 Foolishness at extreme
I think Bruce is a god too.
When I went to London in 2014 I made a point of visiting the London Stone on Cannon Street. I got the impression that tourists never, ever went there. Not sure why it's so obscure, to me it was fascinating.
HAHAHA look its a stone behind a iron cage ..
Smithfield market is awesome! lol especially early in the morning when it’s super busy.
I feel the need to make a correction of sorts. There were people living in the area we now call London long before the Romans showed up. Yes they gave it the name Londinium but they weren’t the first people to live there. Just sayin. Cheers
At 12:39. I lived in Beijing, China. Most would be surprised to find out that the Chinese are not that different from the British. Most of the politics go on there behind closed doors, away from the prying eyes of the public, in a palace complex taken over by the Communists called Zhongnanhai. This area is a collection of sumptuous garden palaces and temples that the Qing Emperors built along these artificial lakes Khublai Khan had constructed right to the west of the Forbidden City. Whereas the Forbidden City itself is now a museum open to the public, the Zhongnanhai complex is now maybe the scariest spot in China. No one goes there. That's where all the big honchos of the Communist Party have their head offices. When they make big decisions in Zhongnanhai, those decisions are then rubber-stamped by the National People's Congress in a giant hall on Tiananmen Square. But everyone knows the real center of power is Zhongnanhai.
At 3:15. I used to live in London for roughly a year. I was maybe a 10 minute walk from Smithfield Market. It was such a lovely structure. I was always curious as to why it was closed/abandoned every single time I went by it. NOW do I finally learn that it was a night-time place and closed up shop during the day. That explains a lot…
I think any man that got to drive a crane that hire would have gave the same smile
dont drink
I think we all wish London was much more like how it was in the 50's and 60's – mass immigration has changed London irreversibly, and not for the good
Money laundering capital of the world
What does London look like now after the invasion?
it is exciting if you make a lot of money, it is obsolete day by day, almost boring, stinky and with a cruel heritage
19:31–19:35 location where please ? Near Furnival Street, Holborn, but more main road?
Who the hell has the disposable income to buy £9 million on a flat golden egg with holes in it? I'm an artist and an amateur art history enthusiast but I really don't understand contemporary art at all. It's all a bit pretentious to me, my passion is in the renaissance period as artists like carravargio and Bernini are my favourites.
If there's a more self righteous boring unfunny presenter comedian. I won't believe you
For seconds i thought he is someone who says " order " 😂
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?…"
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
A carpet of meat would be interesting
CANNT understand the whispering speech with that accent.it’s annoying!