i must have see this on the television when it be first broadcast some decade ago . i think it be brilliant then and and a i remember so much of it now i may have be right . while i have live in and around london i can not call myself a londoner and do not know it at all well who do other than taxi driver . once the viewer understand the premise while that here be a group of men try to learn the seemingly unlearn able and rise to the status of demigod and then the rest be sheer joy . the character be well contrast and their family relationship be equally diverse and and so differently affect by the event of the film . don not think this be a documentary it be pure drama and and the knowledge be one of the character . i have never see anything like this film and before or since . watch it .