Quintessentially British
[Available Oct. 11 on various VOD platforms.] Frank Mannion's engaging, entertaining, informative, visually stunning, 97-minute documentary that pays homage to a cross section of everything unique to Britain, including Buckingham Palace, scull crews, castles, Towers of London, cricket, red telephone booths, Dowton Abbey, Hazelwood House umbrella shop, changing of the guard, horseracing, half-timber homes, royal tailors, black pudding, double-decker buses, Highclear Castle whiskey, Westminister Abbey, Savile Row tailors, aristocracy, Shakespeare's the Globe Theater, and dry humor, and consists of insightful commentary by Dowton Abbey mistress Lady Carnarvon, House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, actors (such as Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench, and Harshika Poonacha), 4th Baronet of Dalmunzie Sir James Birkmyre, Pukka Pies Andrew Storer, Lord Adrian Palmer, former cabinet minister and Pembroke College Cambridge Master Lord Chris Smith, Sir John Soane's Museum director Bruce Boucher, film and theater director Sean Mathias, Cambridge University Boat Club President and Masters student Callum Sullivan, bootmaker Jonathan Lobb, comedian and writer Tom Allen, Marylebone Cricket Club Neil Robinson, writer and broadcaster Oz Clarke, fashion editor Emma Elwick-Bates, haberdashers (such as Simon Cundey, William Skinner, and Alex Cooke), Launer London (royal handbags) Gerald Bodmer, radiologist Dr. Allan Irvine, journalist Andrew Capon, student Hira Janjua, consultant Juana Diaz, writer Karl Dunn, historians professor Michael Wheeler and Sir Max Hastings, Marylebone Cricket Club amateur cricketer Thomas Rash, London taxi drivers Simon Johns and Fred Michell, James Smith & Sons Phil Naismith, former footballer and broadcaster Jermaine Jenas, GEO. F. Trumper CEO Paulette Trumper, Chelsea pensioner Ray Pearson, Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens head gardener Jamie Harris, garden consultant Nicola Hale, The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Mayor Gerard Hargreaves and Deputy Mayor Sof McVeigh, gun and rifle maker Louis Barnes, barrister & surveyor Brian Wadly, hatter and Madhatter descendant Roger Stephenson, Sandown Park Chairman Nick Mustoe, race horse trainer Nicky Henderson LVO, musicians Braimah and Konya Kanneh-Mason, Cambridge law student Dylan Kawende, Proms at St. Jude's founder Susie Gregson MBE, Bekonscot Model Village Brian Newman-Smith, Genoa Mayor Marco Bucci, volunteer Reuben Simon, teacher Lydia Petrucci, and The Stafford hotel manager Stuart Procter, executive chef Jozef Rogulski, and doorman Charlie Jelley.
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