Great Canal Journeys (TV Series)

Birmingham to Braunston (2015)

Samuel West: Self - Actor and Son of Timothy and Prunella

Quotes 

• [the Wests are in Birmingham's Gas Street Basin] 

  Sam West : I can't believe this is the same place! I remember in about 1980 gunning the engine to try and turn the boat, and the foam came up grey - the water was like oil. And now all the foam's on the cappuccinos!

• Timothy West : Today Brummies are proud of their canals, claiming to have more than Venice. And they're right - over one hundred miles versus a meagre twenty-six. It's the Venice of the North, or the Venice of the Midlands.

  Sam West : Yes, it's remiss of Venice not to want to turn round their failing tourist fortunes by calling themselves the Birmingham of the South.