In all of my 80 plus years I have seen a lot and modestly gained a lot of knowledge, but everything that I assume to know just pales into insignifiance when I listen to Neil Oliver relate his stories, you can forget about the leaders throughot the world, if there is one person I would wish to sit down with and have a conversation it would be Neil, this man has my utmost respect.
Neil's precise use of language, gorgeous rich accent imagination and enthusiasm bring everything he describes to life in the most vivacious way. Brilliant, we of the British Isles love you too Neil.
My great great uncle died at Festubert. Thomas Gardener on the 15th of May 1915 From the Scottish Borders town of Innerleithen. Over the top after a in your face trench fight. The order was given to attach bayonets and charge. Brave and frightened and tough as hell!
Funny, I didn’t know. Neil & I both qualified in 1988. I did a longer training & I was also a mature student. So I think I’m perhaps 6-7 years older? (62) I’ve admired the man on the Telly as long as he’s done that. Probably 25+ years? And hugely of late. He’s one of a very small number of people who are both awake and courageous. Not to mention articulate.
I was born in Aberdeen, lived in Glasgow, Lancs, Northumberland, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Surrey, Norfolk and London. Spent last Summer in Cornwall. I also love the British Isles! I notice that people who haven’t travelled our beautiful Isles enough prefer for some reason to highlight difference not what unites. It could be fear and prejudice causing this. Love Neil, his books and programs.
The more places you visit, live & work in, the more we learn that people are more similar across the planet & more different from our neighbours than we could ever expect.
Compelling voice me eye.Jesus, he is so INTENSE!!!! Cannot listen to him.He is a very strong contender for World's Most Annoying Broadcaster Evah.He would be a threat to that Quest bloke who bangs on about business on CNN.
@@dnhy7951 I'm not really sure why you felt compelled to comment here if you dislike Neil so intensely. Personally, I can't understand how it's even possible to dislike such an articulate open hearted man who has the best interests of this planet at heart. It would have been better if you kept negativity out of this very hopeful and educational space. Not trying to be insulting but your comment was brutal.
Neil’s comment about turning the map by 90 degrees to see how central and important The Orkneys used to be was fascinating. It just shows you how we are so easily brainwashed into believing a certain singular non-evolving truth about matters. I once saw an inverted map of Europe and it suddenly gave me a totally different sense of distance and proximity.
Neil Oliver is like a smooth Scottish whiskey poured into my ears. I am going to play this as I go to sleep, it is like a natural history lullaby for the insomniac.
They found old Portuguese Explorer maps of Ancient Northern Africa recently and it had lakes tributaries and rivers and was quite lush ! These were approx 15 th century. So like Neil I believe the Sahara desert ( and any desert actually) was submerged by a great long lasting flood. After receding- desert for miles & miles! Thanks Neil. I’ve always understood the Sphinx was submerged and the water marks evidentiary of water as deep as lakes.
You may be aware of the Younger Dryas Impact Theory, that the last Ice Age was ended around 13,000 years ago by multiple impacts from a comet that hit the Northern ice sheets, mainly in North America. At that time the Sahara was lush grassland, forest, lakes and rivers but slowly desertification took over. If, as I suspect, the Giza Plateau is far older than conventional history suggests, then the Pyramids and Sphinx lay amongst verdant grasslands.
Niel mentioned in auckney islands 300 cattle killed 5000 years ago. In another 5000 years from 2001 I wonder what will be made of the 4 million cattle were slaughtered and burnt because of foot and mouth, BSE?
@@GT380man Whatever Neil identifies as, we need men like him on this planet speaking truth to us. Lots of things and millions of people have gone before us and bascially left this planet intact. We're the ones changing it. We need leaders to lead us back to living in communication with nature like our forebears did.
