Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "Why I, Claudius Is A Great Series" video.

  1. I love how Jacobi parodied a washed-up ham actor in an episode of "Frasier". Complete with the throat-gurgling which he adopted for Claudius. I also liked the young Jacobi's performance in "Day of the Jackal" and as Cadfael. Plus his narration for "In the Night Garden".
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  2. The BBC wouldn't make the TV series today unless Claudius was portrayed as bl a c que.
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  3. Does anyone remember the BBC's DREADFUL series "Churchill's people" from the mid-1970s? Supposedly based on Churchill's books, but EVERY episode expressed the Marxist view of history, dramatising workers revolting against capitalist authority. I was a school kid at the time. A troupe of lefty actors was doing the rounds in the south of England, performing historical scenes for school children, but actually promoting a Marxist view of every event ever from British history. Like other kids at that age, I was too naive to realise what was going on or to have spoken out against it. These days they have lefty weirdos in dresses doing something similar.
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  4. yup
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  5.  @elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633  I dunno anything except the name. Sorry, a gap in my knowledge. Mebbe that makes me seem stooopid, but not so stooopid as to discuss stuff I know nuffin about.
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  6. I suspect it was Picard in the holodeck.
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  7.  @mikavirtanen7029  Some accents are "mid-Atlantic". Most of us don't actually speak like Stewie Griffin. The actor Cary Grant is a good example of "!mid-Atlantic". Also, Grant's accent was deliberately mimicked for the TV series Captain Scarlet.
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  8. In those days, their leftiness was in the closet along with Jimmy Savile's paedophilia.
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  9.  @elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633  I'll look her up and learn stuff.
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