Tony Robinson reveals the grim occupations of workers from Georgian and Victorian era Britain. He will venture into the workhouses and factories to reveal the horrible conditions ordinary people were forced into. He also tries his hand at digging railways and rat-catching, as well as perhaps the worst job of them all, the tanner – a vocation that brought with it an intolerable stench and guaranteed social rejection.
00:00 Georgian Era
48:31 Victorian Era
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30 Comments
tens of thousands budget to make this documentary and then the sound editor fucks it up… :')
There is a rope expert. I want to know the career path to lead to such a title.
Super interesting…how we have taken so much for granted. They had it HARD!!!😬😮💨
This is so fantastic! Didn't even notice the music 😃
Whoever did the sound editing to this video needs to reevaluate the quality. Often the narrator sounds like he's in a tin can, and the background noise is louder than his statements.
Baldrick from Black Adder!!!!!!! LOVE him (and Rowan Atkinson as The Black Adder!!!)🥰🥰💗💗💗💗
All of this was when if you mention Health And Safety Equipment they would have had no idea what you meant. If you got injured it would have been too bad, so sad 😔. Now get lost so I can hire someone else to do your job. Too bad if a parent died on the job, the whole family would have to suffer on without them. They had no sympathy whatsoever for children in general. Child Labour Laws were beyond a lot of people too. On an episode of "Who Do You Think You Are?" someone learnt about a distant Great Grandpa. He go a hernia from lifting and carrying large piles of Led Slates. Instead of having the operation he needed terrible as it would have been he was simply sent packing. His wife died leaving him a single parent. To cope with his terrible pain he hit the bottle 🍾. Whenever he was desperate enough to ask for help they'd turn them away. Basically deciding he was just a lazy, good for nothing drunk who didn't deserve any help or sympathy. It was the people behind the running of The Workhouses who should have been ashamed of themselves. Not the poor unfortunate people who had to go there. Plus too many people who were absolutely clueless about dangerous and even deadly substances.
Again, it is very difficult to hear Tony speaking whenever the music is playing 😢. PLEASE address this in future videos. The sound is low already, but the music makes it almost incredible to hear!
I can’t hear any narration. Turn down the fucking music
great series, saw plenty of these on tv, or from dvd's; but one thing, HE is Sir tony Robinson now!, not when he did these, early 1990-2000's , but NOW he has been knighted, so would be propper to re-title as such.
Who was the producer of this? The sound is awful. Also, did he say he works really hard when he was on the sailing ship? I always compare Tony to Mike Rowe from that show Dirty jobs, mike worked his ass off, Tony does each of these jobs for like 3 min (clearly not wanting to), complains the whole time, then quits, and when the guest on the show gives him a hard time about being a wuss, he whines more
OMG I CAN'T WATCH THIS THE MUSIC IS SO LOUD OVER THE NARRATOR, PLEASE FIX THIS! THE VIDEO CONTENT IS VERY INTERESTING, SUCH A SHAME IT'S NOT WATCHABLE BECAUSE OF THE SOUND QUALITY!!
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The music is way too loud
I don't know why they insist on playing narration while music and other background noise is not muted. It's really quite irritating.
Rats are even more rampant now…
Okay. Dumb American bird here. What's a "vat man?"
03:30 hang on a minute… He went to live with hunter and was never seen again?
Tanning aint so smelly what he says 😀 Used to tan deer hides.
Yall these are old TV shows with a different kind of sound format than what is on Youtube, and there's no way to force it to conform. It's unfortunate but it's not lazy leveling on the part of the show creators.
A certainly interesting documentary. But the music is way too loud and therefore very annoying.
Ummm yeah, I like my testicals more than having a girls voice. I'm good, thanks anyways. Movin' on.
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"Smells like a rancid Oxo cube…" , "Absolutely! And it keeps for years!" I love British sarcastic enthusiasm. 😄♥️
Why being an artist's model was worse than prostitution is beyond me. Yes, you freeze and it's tough, but no STIs and no dangerous customers choking you etc.
these victorians must’ve been stacked and dummy thick with all the carrying water and stuff all day. no wonder they had a lot of kids😅 everyone double cheeked up
audio gets better after about 30 mins
Sounds like the music editor got paid only 2 Schillings.
Watched with the close captions on.
I think Tony is scared of heights. Lolz from what I seen anyways. Lolz
Thanks!
Can’t hear shit.
Audio mix is off on the edit…