Icons

[tim_noone]

What a great watch on bbc2.... I've been around longer than most and didn't realise he'd met a violent death.My history lessons left a lot to be desired...some amazing icons.

[Bosscat]

What a great watch on bbc2.... I've been around longer than most and didn't realise he'd met a violent death.My history lessons left a lot to be desired...some amazing icons.

Haven't watched it Tim, who are you on about?

[tim_noone]

Haven't watched it Tim, who are you on about?

It's on Bbc2 now... You'll have to play catch up.20 century icons. Maybe my history wasn't that bad after all.really good viewing IMO

[thatdberight]

Gandhi, I presume.

[tim_noone]

Gandhi, I presume.

yes Gandhi

[COBBLE]

One of my dad's proudest stories is as a bus driver, he drove Gandhi, goat and all, around Clitheroe in the early 1930s when he visited the textile industry.

[TVC15]

Unbelievably Gandhi was lodging in a house in West Bradford, Clitheroe next to where my relatives now live.

[gandhisflipflop]

Don't believe all you see

[houseboy]

One of my dad's proudest stories is as a bus driver, he drove Gandhi, goat and all, around Clitheroe in the early 1930s when he visited the textile industry.

Ghandi came to Clitheroe? Bet he couldn't wait to get back to Bombay.

[tim_noone]

Tonight...pele Ali Billie jean king and tanni grey Thompson ... No I don't know the last name BBC 2 now.

[tim_noone]

And to the one i didn't know tanni grey Thompson who overcome spina bifida to become an International Athlete.paralympics

[tim_noone]

And to the one i didn't know tanni grey Thompson who overcome spina bifida to become an International Athlete.paralympics

Heads up for the final of Icons tonight 9pm Bbc2 the greatest person of the 20 century...I would say Mohamed Ali or Martin Luther king though there's so many!! Should be good.

[Dyched]

How John Lennon didn’t make this programme I’ll never know.

So hard just to draw it down to 4 people for each episode though.

[tim_noone]

How John Lennon didn’t make this programme I’ll never know.

So hard just to draw it down to 4 people for each episode though.

I would have thought so to..I'm fore going the football as this does capture the imagination.been some GREAT people from the 20 century regardless

[dougcollins]

I saw the Dalai Lama doing the crossword in the Sunday Times in a pub in Clapham Common.

He gave me a boiled sweet.

[tim_noone]

Alan Turing ... The most famous icon of the 20th century. No I didn't know him either.

[bfccrazy]

Alan Turing ... The most famous icon of the 20th century. No I didn't know him either.

Definitely an icon - helped win WW2 then was blasted for being homosexual and pretty much rubbished for years.

[martin_p]

Alan Turing ... The most famous icon of the 20th century. No I didn't know him either.

Seriously? (you not knowing him I mean)

[tim_noone]

Seriously? (you not knowing him I mean)

Not to the extent of the others no... As I was also unaware ghandi having being assassinated by a Hindu.

[Tricky Trevor]

Alan Turing ... The most famous icon of the 20th century. No I didn't know him either.

Try and get a copy of “The Imitation Game”. Fairly recent film about Turing starring Benedict Cumberbach.

[AfloatinClaret]

I saw the Dalai Lama...He gave me a boiled sweet.

What was the sweet like? We met him at Mcleod Ganj on what turned out to be his birthday so we all got a bit of not very good cake; then we managed to arrive in Bandarseribagawan only a week or so later on the Sultan of Brunei's birthday and that (other than no beer) was a much better party.

[dougcollins]

It had reached that stage where you can hardly get the wrapper off. They were in a fancy silk bag though and I think the wrappers were specially designed.
Apart from him (and half a dozen not so discrete security people) I was the only one in the pub.

[bfcjg]

Gandhi quite rightly is an icon. So much so he was immortalised by the nursery rhyme Goosey Goosey Gandhi.

[bobinho]

Don't believe all you see

And even less of what you hear...