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Alan Macfarlane

Alan Macfarlane

British anthropologist and historian

Jul 30, 2026

16:06
Can I just
16:07
add something to this? I went on a similar journey to this with television artists and film crews.
16:16
26, 27 years ago, a producer came to me and said, it's the millennium coming up.
16:28
In Channel 4, one of our producers, We would like to do something special for this celebration.
16:38
And we've been looking at the history of the origins of the English Industrial Revolution as a subject.
16:46
And we've talked to professors in London and elsewhere about the economics of it.
16:52
And we can't find a framework and it's not going to work.

20 MINS LATER

36:43
it was 2,000 years ago.

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