I have been subjected to the unremitting 'trails' for this series and it appears that the presenter is Guy Martin. Nice chap, no doubt but I'm afraid that he should stick to what he's good at – Racing motor-bikes at insane speeds and angles … TV presenter ??? No, No, No.

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Bill

ANYBODY who can get a message across to the great unwashed with the enthusiasm that Guy puts into it is good in my book.

At least the guy has experience and isn't worried about getting his hands dirty or worrying about grammar.

John S.

I really enjoyed the program and I think Guy Martin is great

not frightened to get his hands dirty

a real down to earth chap he is the new Fred Dibnah

Best Wishes Martin

Enjoyed the first episode very much but did need a babel fish in my ear to pick up all the dialogue.

Doug

Guy Martin, he is what he is. Accent is fine by me, enthusiasm infectious. Just accept him.

As JohnS says, we need more like him to spread the message. Please do not nit pick this series, his ideas on tolerances and accuracy are not mine,as are his problems with imperial/metric dimensions, however it is the story line that matters.

Roll on the next Manx TT.

KWIL…I agree, was trying to make the point that great content makes up for ( to me ) presenteation … err … differences.

And the main howlers in units seemed to be from the voice over man .. no excuse there but harmless.

If anyone wants to watch this it is repeated on channel 4seven tonight at 8pm. That is channel 47 on freeview, 127 on freesat, 140 on sky, 195 on virgin. I've recorded it but haven't watched it yet.

Gary

Hi Guys,

I feel this show was better than his last, discounting his dog trials one for obvious reasons, because there was more of interest to us lot (the engineering minded) than the social historian. Unfortunately I feel as though I might be on the verge of becoming a "vocal snob", for although I admire the heck out of his abilities both in the garage and most particularly on the track, not to mention his balls for appearing on TV, I do find his use of language a bit hard on the ear. This feeling will not stop me watching his shows, for I know it is my failings, not his, that his words jar.

What I am waiting for is his next series, whatever that may be, because I feel he has had more of his input into this series, than the boat one. He is I feel the sort who will now only do a program on his terms, whereas his first one was on the producers ones. As he begins to realise the powers he has as the star of the show, he can guide the direction the way he wants it to go, which is probably the way we also would like it to go.

Thank heavens this show does not have "tarbie's twitterings" but a half decent narrator, who only has to fill in the blanks rather than constantly droning on as though she was the star of the show.

Final verdict, thumbs up and looking forward to the rest.

chriStephens

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Thanks for the starting notification Jason.

Watching the replay it is looking better than some of the ilk with pictures of the items of interest . Producers / directors are from the arts not sciences and as exemplified in 'a car is born' and gardening programs want to show pictures of ugly old male presenters instead of the subject matter. (No that's not a call for blowsey broads with big …)

'Personalities' seldom know much about the subject and may not be well briefed. This series seems to have recognised that and provided a background overduber witha decent accent and script. Fred Dibnah was not supported with information perhaps because they thought he knew a lot but his range of knowledge and abilty to express what he knew was very poor. It doesn't really matter though when the audience don't know the difference between a bolt and a screw.

Just got to the end and see next week is going to be pure fun though those relying on wickipedia will not understand my pun.

While you lot were watching the programme I was recording it and watching Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell, **LINK** which blew my socks off! I urge anyone who hasn't seen it to do so, it will probably divest you of your socks as well. And if you're wondering what this programme has to do with engineering then just watch the amazing molcular machines moving stuff around inside the cell. All done in CGI of course, but presumably a true representation of what goes on inside every one of our billions of cells.

When I watched the How Britain Worked programme I thought that it was well worth watching but missed a lot of what was said, partly due to the heavy accent and partly to Anno Domini. Next week I shall watch it live and switch on subtitles, something I have to do with many of the American programmes.

Edited By Brian O’Connor on 23/10/2012 09:23:08

I'm waiting with 'bated' breath!

Trouble is, Guy's a bit of a motormouth. Combine that with an accent (Lincolnshire presumably) that's a wierd mixture of Northern generic and sing-songy running up and down the vocal scale, his comments were incomprensible to me half the time. They amounted to an unbroken stream of maybe intelligent comment, exclamations and half-completed utterances that made it diificult to get the gist. I like accents but people from other regions need time to 'tune in' to unfamilar variations. The delivery was just too manic — maybe the producer needs to give Guy a 'downer' before a take!

Most of the time he made a very fair hack of the jobs given but there was one WTF moment in the watch repairing segment. Right at the outset the watchmaker makes a pointed remark about how dirty his hands are and the necessity for cleanliness in dealing with these mechanisms. So what does our hero do — wash his hands? Not hardly, we next see his filthy paws all over the watch. Yes, he does a good job but what's the moral? Ignore the expert and just do your own thing?

Still, I'll stick with the series.

Joe

Edited By joegib on 23/10/2012 09:35:48