A pity that all the younger generation haven't a man like this. With a true understanding how the Countryside works, good and bad, and can pass it on in a gentle non confrontational manner.
I just cant get enough of this English guy Jack Hargreaves. It was my Irish Catholic grandmother that made me watch his programmes on TV "Out of Town" from the early 70's while I was at primary school and something virtuous and pure and genuine rubbed off onto me and I follow now religiously. And so should you!!
watching jack turned me into the man I am today,,,love fishing being out of doors nature and anything related to it always watched u jack lovly gent well missed
when i was growing up my old Dad was an exceptional countryman and encouraged me to watch jack as well as dad teaching and showing me all things countryside and i still love it today some 50 odd years later now my kids are showing their kids
@@Rocky-hs9ei You really must read comments properly. Did I mention places, no! I said ‘a paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humour.’
He was a childhood hero of mine and I have many of the dvds of his films and his books.. a wonderful English gentleman.... great film but where on Earth did they get that interviewer from! 🙄 he was as emotionless as a gate post.....
I loved watching him on a Sunday morning, it was brilliant. It was about the only thing that kept me indoors, I was always out playing in the woods nearby.
It’s a shame they couldn’t have a got a nice a person as Jack to do the interview ..Jack Hargreaves’s definitely one of the greatest ever living Englishmen
I visited (West) Sussex for the first time a couple of summers ago, and I could see what a stunningly beautiful county it must have been before the post WW2 agricultural intensification. Even now, there are a lot more trees than in my native North Yorkshire, but so much less space. It seems that wherever you are, there is an A road within earshot. I know towns and villages have to grow (apparently so, especially with the recent relaxation of planning restrictions), but it seems that they have carved up the counties of the south east far too much; just so many roads.
What a first-class point about the Green Party...visionary would he have guessed how far standards have fallen in public Life. "Dear Jack when I was a boy I thought you were a little hard now I am an old man I think you weren't hard enough".
Loved to hear Jack again. But why did they not get a countryman to do the interview. It is quite obvious that Bruce is a townie. This could have been so much better.
“They built the biggest caravan park near our farm, and you had to lock the gate on Friday night and open it in Monday morning.” Well said Jack. These days you would be getting cancelled and vilified on a weekly basis, so I am glad you haven’t had to witness it all (even though we miss you).
He grew up in central London, at some point he got work on TV and decided to create a persona that he was born and bread in the country - he researched well and made a good living
Jack had a streak of genius about him. He’s amazingly far seeing in this bit of film. I thank goodness that he doesn’t have to view things as they are now.
It makes me sad when I think about all the houses being built in the countryside on the pretext of housing shortages, rather than the truth of mass immigration.
Bruce Hockin retired from his job as HTV News anchorman in 1996, but still holds the record as ITV's longest serving news reader, with more than thirty continuous years in the job. Bruce has been known to make occasional broadcasts on there himself! Bruce also serves as a director on Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, and Avon and Somerset Crimestoppers boards. He is also a patron of the Skin Cancer Research Fund.
The bit about population today and the massive increase in cars says it all ,sadly he is the end of an era post war Britain countryside was beautiful , no motorways then, the demise of hedgerows, elm trees, hedgehogs the list goes on
He considered the conservation of countryside with its traditions and tribes was going to become part of the green agenda; it didn't turn out that way.
The interviewer is a bit too pushy and probably isn’t listening to the answers. When you have someone of Jacks status and quality surely you want to ask an interesting question and then let the great man talk at length.
I get the sense he associated green with conservation and a form of conservatism. I wonder what he’d make of these far-left radicals that represent green today.
Sadly, 30 years on and environmentalists are often the worst enemy of the countryside. You can’t go to University, do an environmental science degree and pretend to understand the countryside, you have to live it, work it and observe it to understand it; sadly the trend now is to blame humanity for everything, even though it is humanity that has created the variety of landscapes and habitats that we once enjoyed. As the man hints at in the interview, the vast diversity of the British countryside is a direct result of the management practices of land owners and stewards over millennia. Farming, forestry, fisheries, hunting have all played their role in creating a balanced and healthy countryside. Humans wiped out many of the large predators like wolves as they were a direct threat to the domesticated stock, necessary to build civilisation as humans became the new top predator in the land. Humanity had to fill this void or the prey animals would overpopulate, starve in poor years and become diseased without the constant thinning and dispersal of the wild herd. Over the past few years we have seen the introduction and or protection of many top predators, this is having a dramatic impact on smaller herbivores and fish stocks. Controlled burning of heather moorland has now been discontinued in many areas (for environmental reasons!), which has led to the massive dieback and senescence of the heather, a huge increase in the fire loading (causing more intense and deep burning fires should they occur (Saddleworth Moor for example)) and many more examples of mismanagement and trendy, idealistic conservation that has led to a degradation of the countryside. Yer man also hinted at the shortcomings of the Common Agricultural Policy, with milk quotas. Fortunately we may be able to reverse some of the misguided, grant driven legislation and policy now we are leaving the ‘one size fits all’ EU. On the plus side, I do feel privileged to live in Dorset:-)
remade today, "jack, how has your country village changed since you moved here?" "well the muslim call to prayer from the local minaret wakes me up every morning and the village shop isnt allowed to sell bacon or booze any more cos they're haram under english law"
@@grahamjonathan762 I doubt he was a "fine socialist" since he fought for Britain during WWII against the only good kind of socialists; the National Socialists.
What a fake! "I don't understand the town - I would get lost if I went to London" - he said! Look him up! he lived for many years at central London addresses!
He wasn't born in that area and he is not a farmer so why does he not go back to Huddersfield if he wants the countryside saving...the plan has been a long time coming...note how he does not think Democracy will work for the countryside...
I can listen to Jack for days
im in tears because you just dont get those kind of people anymore reminds me of my grandad rip
A pity that all the younger generation haven't a man like this. With a true understanding how the Countryside works, good and bad, and can pass it on in a gentle non confrontational manner.
Ray Mears comes close
Very patronising.
@@mariemccann5895How ?
Agreed. Maybe Jeremy Clarkson is the closest they'll get
@@FordTransitvan God help the countryside if that is considered to be country ways.
I once heard a townie woman say, I came to live in the country to see cows, not smell them. 🤣
A Real Englishman and a Character who cast a mean fly!
I worked on that cottage .and Jack used to have his pipe in each room ....lovely man .........
I just cant get enough of this English guy Jack Hargreaves. It was my Irish Catholic grandmother that made me watch his programmes on TV "Out of Town" from the early 70's while I was at primary school and something virtuous and pure and genuine rubbed off onto me and I follow now religiously.
And so should you!!
The very best of British-Thank goodness for his generation,still a few left but greatly missed!
What a great man love his approach to life.
watching jack turned me into the man I am today,,,love fishing being out of doors nature and anything related to it always watched u jack lovly gent well missed
A man away ahead of his time , and a TRUE GREEN ....not a pink haired tree hugging hippy. !!!
Absolutely
when i was growing up my old Dad was an exceptional countryman and encouraged me to watch jack as well as dad teaching and showing me all things countryside and i still love it today some 50 odd years later now my kids are showing their kids
Jack was lucky he had the money to do it all. and the education.
there was many a peasant who had knowledge as well and new all the ways of such Folk.
Thats great that traditional methods/knowledge can be passed down the generations and not lost.
Makes you proud to be an Englishman! Jack is a legend.
+TheMadScotsman mckay we have no one like him
Him and Fred Dibnah
We're a dying breed from 7 years later
@@crazycressy7986 True.
The very finest Englishman, admired by p[people from all over the world, greatly loved in Ireland
Watched jacks absolute spellbinding shows on tv as a child,the man knew more than a brigade put together.
That’s when England was England, a paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humour.
You hit that nail right on the head.
It still exists. What are you talking about? The problem is it's too expensive to live in such a paradise.
@@Rocky-hs9ei NO, it doesn’t!
@@venenareligioest410 ok but would you say there are no deeper rural unspoiled nooks and crannies anymore 🤔
@@Rocky-hs9ei You really must read comments properly. Did I mention places, no! I said ‘a paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humour.’
Best thing Jack has ever said is that we need to stop England becoming like Surrey, superb and so true and battle we need to keep fighting!
He was a childhood hero of mine and I have many of the dvds of his films and his books.. a wonderful English gentleman.... great film but where on Earth did they get that interviewer from! 🙄 he was as emotionless as a gate post.....
Great bloke … polymath and one of a kind … intimate and detailed historian … a real Wizard.
A great man I loved watching him as a kid always very informative
jack was a legend,he could live off the land and make it look easy,it was people like this who put the great into britain.
I loved watching him on a Sunday morning, it was brilliant. It was about the only thing that kept me indoors, I was always out playing in the woods nearby.
Me the same, Jack was ahead of his time but from the past! strange really....and only some of us children loved his programs, the rest hated him.
How sad these times have gone
I agree it's sad life know
Nobody speaks
What a marvelous man.
A wonderful man.
Words that seem even more pertinent today. You could say he could see the future in this
"Why do the farmers put the gates where the mud is!" - i'll second that LOL.
Lovely interview ! Great man.
It’s a shame they couldn’t have a got a nice a person as Jack to do the interview ..Jack Hargreaves’s definitely one of the greatest ever living Englishmen
He is dead.
A truly wonderful and unique human being.
@alanrtment porter :-) *
Wonderful man! What foresight - the city of England - especially in Sussex! Great views on green issues.
I visited (West) Sussex for the first time a couple of summers ago, and I could see what a stunningly beautiful county it must have been before the post WW2 agricultural intensification. Even now, there are a lot more trees than in my native North Yorkshire, but so much less space. It seems that wherever you are, there is an A road within earshot. I know towns and villages have to grow (apparently so, especially with the recent relaxation of planning restrictions), but it seems that they have carved up the counties of the south east far too much; just so many roads.
Jack and Fred Dineage are worth a hundred Dermot O'Dreary and Rylan Clark's combined.
What a first-class point about the Green Party...visionary would he have guessed how far standards have fallen in public Life. "Dear Jack when I was a boy I thought you were a little hard now I am an old man I think you weren't hard enough".
The Man - brilliant stuff!
The best way to fish, The Jack Hargreaves way.
Just wonderful* Thank you so much for sharing
Loved to hear Jack again. But why did they not get a countryman to do the interview. It is quite obvious that Bruce is a townie. This could have been so much better.
Interesting interview. What’s being discussed in it seems to have come to fruition across the world. Thanks for posting.
“They built the biggest caravan park near our farm, and you had to lock the gate on Friday night and open it in Monday morning.”
Well said Jack. These days you would be getting cancelled and vilified on a weekly basis, so I am glad you haven’t had to witness it all (even though we miss you).
How funny that blue and red would be a constant difference between gangs. And still is
Thanks for this. I remember him from the TV show "How" :)
Same here … great show … sure there’s some episodes on YT.
He grew up in central London, at some point he got work on TV and decided to create a persona that he was born and bread in the country - he researched well and made a good living
Is the gorgeous almost dawn chorus overdubbbed or live? Either way we'd struggle to hear such divine melody in 2024
Jack had a streak of genius about him. He’s amazingly far seeing in this bit of film.
I thank goodness that he doesn’t have to view things as they are now.
The best!!😎🐓🐓🇬🇧
It makes me sad when I think about all the houses being built in the countryside on the pretext of housing shortages, rather than the truth of mass immigration.
When it was worth turning on the tv!
He was England with a pipe.
Ask country people about the countryside. Even today, the politicians still don't.
Greta ought to watch Jack. She might learn something. Instead of being a Davos talking head.
An online smoking shop now sells a Jack Hargreaves tribute pipe, a Falcon, like his - I have one, and very good it is too.
Bruce Hockin retired from his job as HTV News anchorman in 1996, but still holds the record as ITV's longest serving news reader, with more than thirty continuous years in the job.
Bruce has been known to make occasional broadcasts on there himself! Bruce also serves as a director on Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, and Avon and Somerset Crimestoppers boards. He is also a patron of the Skin Cancer Research Fund.
How right he was
An England lost.
Sunday mourning that theme tune 70s 80s dare uture a word when jack was on.. was in Berlin bought a kallabash pipe immediately thought of jack
Such a remarkable man definitely don't make them like that no more
lets hear it for the wonderful Bruce Hockin from HTV
He wouldn't get on telly today because he doesn't have tattooed eyebrows and swollen cheeks which stop him enunciating words.
😂😂😂
This sceptered isle.
The bit about population today and the massive increase in cars says it all ,sadly he is the end of an era post war Britain countryside was beautiful , no motorways then, the demise of hedgerows, elm trees, hedgehogs the list goes on
Jack so casual the guy asking the questions so BBC
Bruce Hockin worked for ITV
It's not bbc ffs. Not even John Craven. Priceless the line 'It will all be like Surrey'. He seems to be right, unfortunately.
HTV, Not BBC. The ident was at the beginning of the programme.
RIP
He considered the conservation of countryside with its traditions and tribes was going to become part of the green agenda; it didn't turn out that way.
I like the way he used to say what a lovely bird and then shoot it!
Did his book ever come out 'keeping the countryside'
Hockin is very wooden next to Jack. No offense but Jack is so easy to listen to whereas Hockin is struggling.
Awkward interviewer.
England lives and marches on.
He was born near me Palmers Green London I live in Muswell Hill
a giant yankee walmart !.....WELL COME TO WALMART !
The interviewer is a bit too pushy and probably isn’t listening to the answers. When you have someone of Jacks status and quality surely you want to ask an interesting question and then let the great man talk at length.
1990
I get the sense he associated green with conservation and a form of conservatism. I wonder what he’d make of these far-left radicals that represent green today.
Do you know when this was recorded ?
Around 1990.
who did the sub titles ha ha ha
Where is his house?
Very prophetic words with regard to the geeen issue. Waycahead of gis time.
Im getting one of those hats
Super guy was jack hargreaves6
It was recorded in 1990. Further Jack Hargreaves material is available on this site.
vimeo.com/groups/77970
Thanks for the information
And uploading these video's of this great man 💙🌟
The quip about the muddy cattle gate went way over the boring interviewers head!!!!!
Jack's son tells me the interviewer annoyed him and was being obsequious, he deliberately puffs smoke in his face at one point.
LOL, a British Hemingway ......but with that English class!!!
@@622superpro :-) *
Sadly, 30 years on and environmentalists are often the worst enemy of the countryside. You can’t go to University, do an environmental science degree and pretend to understand the countryside, you have to live it, work it and observe it to understand it; sadly the trend now is to blame humanity for everything, even though it is humanity that has created the variety of landscapes and habitats that we once enjoyed. As the man hints at in the interview, the vast diversity of the British countryside is a direct result of the management practices of land owners and stewards over millennia. Farming, forestry, fisheries, hunting have all played their role in creating a balanced and healthy countryside. Humans wiped out many of the large predators like wolves as they were a direct threat to the domesticated stock, necessary to build civilisation as humans became the new top predator in the land. Humanity had to fill this void or the prey animals would overpopulate, starve in poor years and become diseased without the constant thinning and dispersal of the wild herd. Over the past few years we have seen the introduction and or protection of many top predators, this is having a dramatic impact on smaller herbivores and fish stocks. Controlled burning of heather moorland has now been discontinued in many areas (for environmental reasons!), which has led to the massive dieback and senescence of the heather, a huge increase in the fire loading (causing more intense and deep burning fires should they occur (Saddleworth Moor for example)) and many more examples of mismanagement and trendy, idealistic conservation that has led to a degradation of the countryside.
Yer man also hinted at the shortcomings of the Common Agricultural Policy, with milk quotas. Fortunately we may be able to reverse some of the misguided, grant driven legislation and policy now we are leaving the ‘one size fits all’ EU. On the plus side, I do feel privileged to live in Dorset:-)
Who is interviewing Jack would like to know who he is
Bruce Hockin, per the intro.
czcams.com/video/nnXc1pVtWns/video.html
A lovely man who realised that his home town of London was a shit-hole.
Is Bruce Hockin Still working the media today or has he retired from the media
Bruce Hockin retired in 1996, six years after this programme was made.
czcams.com/video/nnXc1pVtWns/video.html
Its Bruce Hockin. He used to be a news reader on ITV West (HTV) news.
remade today,
"jack, how has your country village changed since you moved here?"
"well the muslim call to prayer from the local minaret wakes me up every morning and the village shop isnt allowed to sell bacon or booze any more cos they're haram under english law"
Jack would of voted for brexit ........A true Brit.
Funny you should say that, as he was a leading light on us joining in the first place.
@alanrtment porter There's cheap flights to Berlin at the minute.....
@@grahamjonathan762 Was he? That's a shame if true.
@@folksurvival A fine socialist if ever I met one
@@grahamjonathan762 I doubt he was a "fine socialist" since he fought for Britain during WWII against the only good kind of socialists; the National Socialists.
What a fake! "I don't understand the town - I would get lost if I went to London" - he said! Look him up! he lived for many years at central London addresses!
He wasn't born in that area and he is not a farmer so why does he not go back to Huddersfield if he wants the countryside saving...the plan has been a long time coming...note how he does not think Democracy will work for the countryside...
Your not a fan than why!!
What you getting at Diane
Jack hargreaves was a-great English gentleman 🎯💯✅
Jack was born in Palmer’s green London but moved to the country early on
That interviewer is very annoying; so false
Watching him on a sunday, was about as exciting as it got on a Sunday, during the 70's. It was bad, very bad.
RAIDERS58th
I was a child, what do you expect ? It wasn't exactly fun y'know.
A wonderful man.