gee13 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Anyone catch it? Im watching it now...on SbS 830 wa time Home of Dynamo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyHeart Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Watching it now. Quite a positive representation of british muslims. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyHeart Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Very like stoke where I am from. Large Pakistani population Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgil Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Yes, I watched it tonight and found it very interesting. Will certainly watch part 2 next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtaylor30 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Didn't watch it, but lived there for 3 years at University. It's changed a lot from my day in the late 90's, and most of my old haunts don't now exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobj Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Didn't watch it, but lived there for 3 years at University. It's changed a lot from my day in the late 90's, and most of my old haunts don't now exist. Love it!! Must have changed a bit more since I lived there in the 50s and early 60s...:laugh: A part of the Bfd Uni was once a few back alleys and wool warehouses, one of which I served my woolclassing apprenticeship in, in Westholme St. just off Thornton Road. Cheers, Bobj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ptp113 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Pretty filthy looking bunch TBH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyman Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Anyone catch it? Im watching it now...on SbS 830 wa time Home of Dynamo... is it still on or being repeated .....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abz123 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Sorry, a bit off tangent but all I can think about was that "welcome to Bradistan" sign at the start of East is East! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gee13 Posted February 6, 2014 Author Share Posted February 6, 2014 Here ya go mate, and any one who missed it http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/123641411988/Bradford-City-Of-Dreams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gee13 Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 Hi folks Just a reminder that Part 2 is on tonight. In 20 minutes actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyHeart Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Funnily enough Ive just turned it over. Looking forward to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Recording it to keep on tape. Great show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyay1 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 (edited) I'm from the Bradford distict originally and went to school in the city. As soon as me and all my mates reached 18 we could not wait to leave and after uni unlike my dad's generation due to lack of local job opportunities we all migrated south to London and overseas. Most of our contemporaries who had any kind of ambition about them also left during the 90s. There was, and is simply no real opportunities for professional people in the city a great shame unlike 30 or more years ago. It has been on the slide for a long time with local out-migration, and has just backfilled with third world immigrants from the poorer parts of poor countries, doing minimum wage jobs and who as a community have steadily become more conservative, small minded, inward looking and attitudey as the decades have worn on (perhaps even more so than the places they've come from). It's now one of the most deprived and least dynamic economic areas in western europe, a massive and shocking decline with the social fabric utterly transformed for the worse. Even in the 80s there was a little joy about the place. Not any more. Edited February 11, 2014 by jimmyay1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gee13 Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 I'm from the Bradford distict originally and went to school in the city. As soon as me and all my mates reached 18 we could not wait to leave and after uni unlike my dad's generation due to lack of local job opportunities we all migrated south to London and overseas. Most of our contemporaries who had any kind of ambition about them also left during the 90s. There was, and is simply no real opportunities for professional people in the city a great shame unlike 30 or more years ago. It has been on the slide for a long time with local out-migration, and has just backfilled with third world immigrants from the poorer parts of poor countries, doing minimum wage jobs and who as a community have steadily become more conservative, small minded, inward looking and attitudey as the decades have worn on (perhaps even more so than the places they've come from). It's now one of the most deprived and least dynamic economic areas in western europe, a massive and shocking decline with the social fabric utterly transformed for the worse. Even in the 80s there was a little joy about the place. Not any more. Did you watch the program? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgil Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I missed part 2 because for some reason I can't get any signal on SBS tonight in Melbourne. I'll watch it tomorrow on SBS on demand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul1Perth Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 (edited) I missed part 2 as well. Have to try it on catch up. Whilst I enjoyed the program you can put lipstick on a pig and it's still a pig. The "success" stories they showed were great but the juries still out and it would be interesting to visit the guys in 5 years time. Really liked the 3 guys it focussed on though. The one who was driving around in the Bentley worth about 10 times as much as his house was a good guy. Great to see him go into schools and try and put some back in. The guy opening the fish and chip shops in India and all the little outlets he has already I can only wish him well. Don't know what his borrowing costs would be though and I wouldn't fancy the lifestyle. The English guy who looked and acted like one of the nicest guys you could wish to meet anywhere, was presented as a success story. If that's succeeding I don't want to. He started the show coming out of a terraced house saying he'd lived there for 30 years, the mother in law lived 2 doors away and his son lived up the street. He spent the whole program in high vis work gear, driving around in a crappy truck, doubled up as the local gravedigger. That bit was funny when he was telling the people how to go on at the funeral and he was still in his work gear. Lovely bloke though. It's supposed to be a success story about Bradford so they aren't going to show you the drug dealers hanging around on street corners are they. Personally I wouldn't live there for a gold pig and ten younguns. Made me smile when they showed the rows of terraced houses and said how they'd all had loft conversions. They needed them, there were 20 people living in every house. Reminded me of where I lived when I was at Uni. Sparkhill near Birmingham was just like that. Edited February 13, 2014 by Paul1Perth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gee13 Posted February 13, 2014 Author Share Posted February 13, 2014 I agree with most of this too. Nonetheless I did like its positive outlook from those who had to start from grass roots ..and also the result of now 3 generations of migrants to Bradford and where some are at now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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