I made thumbnails of what I saw on TV to remind myself. That's especially helpful if subtitles tell you the names of people and you miss them.
Problem
What if I missed it? Where can I watch it?
Answers
If you have paid the BBC you are entitled to watch on your laptop, as a warning before the programme starts tell you.
First some statistics:
It's a three-mile parade with 20 marching bands, 140 floats and 6,500 participants including 1800 members of the military and 200 animals including horses, donkeys, and camels.
Beehives and bunches of flowers, given out to the crowd, were brought on a float
The PDSA (People's Dispensary For Sick Animals), brought magnificent horses with riders
The BBC version is on the iplayer later Sunday Nov 11 2017 for another 28 days.
Why only 28 days? It's a question of cost.
If you are not entitled to watch the BBC or are reading this after the programme has disappeared.
You can see the 2017 Lord Mayor's show as well as excerpts from the 2016 and 2015 shows on YouTube.
I particularly liked this version which showed lots of dancing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-gNvZLXB_M
So when's the next one? Same time next year.
Author Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
One man has been in charge of the parade for years, as was his father previously. You can't have everybody racing to be first. An order of precedence is established. Nobody says where the toilets are but there must be some. The commentary told us he organizes lunch boxes for everybody participating.
Somebody has to see the barriers are in place and removed. You need to keep track of the number of the people in the parade, anticipated number of spectators. From that you can estimate the numbers of police or marshalls. Set up the stand for the Lord Mayor.
They didn't say so, but on a previous occasion, I heard the organizer of a parade say that you can't have two or more marching bands behind each other, with no gap, all playing different music.
Problem
What if I missed it? Where can I watch it?
Answers
If you have paid the BBC you are entitled to watch on your laptop, as a warning before the programme starts tell you.
First some statistics:
It's a three-mile parade with 20 marching bands, 140 floats and 6,500 participants including 1800 members of the military and 200 animals including horses, donkeys, and camels.
Beehives and bunches of flowers, given out to the crowd, were brought on a float
The PDSA (People's Dispensary For Sick Animals), brought magnificent horses with riders
The BBC version is on the iplayer later Sunday Nov 11 2017 for another 28 days.
Why only 28 days? It's a question of cost.
If you are not entitled to watch the BBC or are reading this after the programme has disappeared.
You can see the 2017 Lord Mayor's show as well as excerpts from the 2016 and 2015 shows on YouTube.
I particularly liked this version which showed lots of dancing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-gNvZLXB_M
So when's the next one? Same time next year.
Author Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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