All Creatures Great And Small - Part 1
Sitting down and watching an episode from All Creatures Great And Small made and broadcast in the late 1970s is a fascinating experience in the modern 2020 world of barraging and arguing over every single aspect of life. We are in a lockdown situation because of bad agricultural practices on the other side of the world but few people are presenting it that way. We also live in a world where you can either be upset by something—for some reason—or by upsetting people. You can decide, for example, that you are offended by the idea of a song, or that a song is somehow a symbol of a historical stain on the national history. Or you can suddenly present that song as a symbol of something that you believe in very deeply. All arguments can and most probably have a validity, but nobody is sitting down together and compromising. Also, people don’t sit down and watch television at the same time these days—back in that era there were three channels and if you didn’t watch something when itw...