The 80s are the "good old days" to some now. It just goes round in a loop.

It's impossible to stress how valuable footage like this is

Fenner Brockway died 8 years after this was recorded, he lived to 99. Juliette Huxley died in 1994, aged 98. Barbara Wootton lived to 91, dying in the same year as Brockway. Pritchett died last in 1997, he was 96.

“I find it distressing this hunger for speed, speed, speed.” This woman knew what we were in for long before it came

And the presenter Mavis Nicholson is now 89 years old. Older than those being interviewed. Time passes in the blink of an eye!

As a child and teenager, I used to love asking my great aunt - born in 1892 and lived until she was 92 - about how life was like for her.  When I was learning about suffragettes at school and told her this, she immediately told me that their colours were white, purple and green.  Never learned that at school, only from my great aunt who remembered them.  She had to leave school at 13 and went to work at a dressmaker, making whalebone corsets for Edwardian ladies.

Their level of eloquence  in the way they speak and manners they display is extinct now

So nice to see the people on the panel being civil and courteous and not shouting at each other.

"It's distressing, this hunger for speed!" She nailed it!

How lucky I am to live in a time that affords the opportunity to glance back in time and experience albeit through someone else's eyes, life so many decades ago.  I thoroughly enjoyed viewing this discussion, thank you for the upload.

Interviewer: What do you miss most about transport?

Interviewee: S O C I A L I S M

Wow, they were talking about something very interesting about walking and being in the moment, being present, to smell the scents of flowers, of foods being prepared in a restaurant, and everything that happens around us, and it really is not the same when you are in a car, they probably enjoyed more of the simple things in life, no distractions with phones and so on.
Nowadays a lot of people feel the need to wear noise canceling headphones to stop the chaos around us.

Lord Shinwell would have been so disappointed if he saw what little progress we have made as a society since 1980. He’s right in everything he said in the clip.

"I think I've been in prison in five continents" XD

The interviewer asked the man if they were more active then and he said he has always been an activist!  She moved onto another question very quickly and didn't want to correct him!

All these people in this video are deceased now including the interviewer Mavis Nicholson who died in September of 2022.

How wonderful to listen to well spoken people having a civilized conversation!! It seems to be a lost art nowadays

Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger, CH was a British sociologist and criminologist (14 April 1897 - 11 July 1988).
Archibald Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway was a British socialist politician, humanist campaigner and anti-war activist. (1 November 1888 – 28 April 1988).
Juliette Huxley was a Swiss-French sculptor and writer. She provided lifelong support to her husband, British naturalist Julian Huxley (6 December 1896 – 1994).
Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett CH CBE FRSL was a British writer and literary critic (16 December 1900 - 20 March 1997).

Now if that interviewer is alive she’s the age of these people she’s chatting with. God bless them all.

I'm most impressed at how upon clicking i expected this talk to be a "pleasant" casual talk on horse trams and steam engines, but instead it was a very deep conversation on socio-political changes.