What's wrong with London's boroughs?
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Published 2020-05-07
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Written by
Jay Foreman @jayforeman
Paul Kendler @kendlerpaul
Edited by
Jay Foreman
Director of Photography
Paul Kendler
Camera Assistant
Urs Robbe
Props, Costume and Production Runner
Jade Nagi @jade_nagi
VFX
Chris Walker @BigDamnArtist
www.zangrethordigital.ca/
Political maps by
Matt from @ElectionMapsUK
Ko-fi.com/electionmapsuk
Additional (invaluable) research
Ian Pleace @lccmunicipal
Further reading: www.lccmunicipal.com/
Font vocabulary/opinions
Gareth Stranks @strnks
Further reading: typewritingblog.wordpress.com/
Bollard vocabulary
Katie Taylor @capn_katie_
Bromley sign
Ryan Griffin
Game Show Host
Mandy Dassa @MandyDassa
• Choose Your own Adventure! Start Here...
Game Show Contestant
Paul Kendler @kendlerpaul
Margaret Thatcher / Vox Pop 3
Jade Nagi @jade_nagi
Vox Pops 1 and 2
Sorry, I’ve completely forgotten their names. They approached us while we were filming, so we asked if they wanted to be in it. If you know/are one of these two people, get in touch!
Man from Hounslow
Matt Lucas @realmattlucas
www.thankyoubakedpotato.com/
Thanks to:
New London Architecture at The Building Centre
Pipers Models - creators of the New London Model
All Comments (21)
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Saying "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted", when returning to your position almost 15 years after it was abolished is the most British thing ever and I love it.
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River, river, river, leaf, text with website underneath, fox's head with eagle's palms, lots of boring coats of arms, flower, tree, tree, tree, stolen from the BBC, very 90's, round and bold, painted by a 5 year old, flappy triangles appeal, happy crown and water wheel, circle skyline, painty, lame, looks like someone signed their name, swirly B and swishy N, boring coats of arms again, eight blobs no one understands, that completes the-- oh, it's HANDS.
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staring intently at the Westminster sign "Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it. Oh my god, it even has a watermark"
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As a Harrovian I couldn’t help but find it funny when you were talking about combining boroughs the map had North, South and Harrow as the three boroughs.
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Matt Lucas' cameo is class.
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I can’t find a single comment talking about how Matt Lucas was in this one. How on earth did they find him for casting? Brilliant!
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One of the most unexpected crossovers ever. Matt Lucas on a geography channel
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That cycle lane change alone is terrifying enough to warrant them being changed...
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"We've all got thyme on our hands." I was too busy laughing to watch the rest of the advert.
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Honestly how this man hasn’t been given a BBC program I’ve no idea...
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I used to work for the GLC in County Hall. Started a couple of years before abolition. I loved that big old building. It was HUGE. Do you know it had (maybe still has) underground tunnels. And the staff canteen was ginormous! I also met Ken Livingstone a couple times. Lovely memories.
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I sent an email to the council at 3am complaining about the street light shining in my window. Before I woke up that morning they had already come and fixed it. Don't think you'd get that service in many other places than Richmond.
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The “thyme on our hands” joke was so stupid. I loved it.
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Jay seems to have done quite a bit of research on font types.
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Honestly how there isn’t a United London Utilities Services that unites all the different bins, street works etc to one organisation across all boroughs is mind blowing.
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Why do I keep rewatching this series even though I've never been to London
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"We've all got thyme on our hands nowadays" really got me.
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The Matt Lucas part was hilarious. Absolutely none of us in Hounslow actually LIKE being in Hounslow at all hahaha
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You could have just said "it was Thatcher's fault... again" and practically 3/4 of the world's population would have understood the problem.
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I'll say this for Jay Foreman adverts, they certainly stick in your head! Nearly 2 years after this video came out, I'll still randomly say just "lovely Skillshare" in different accents every now and then! That's what I call some good advertising lol.
