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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Aug 11, 2016 12:08:40 GMT
Following on from the interesting series he presented on Britain in the 70's, starting last Thursday at 9 pm on BBC2 is a new series profiling Britain in the above decade. Quite interesting so far, and I've seen the first ep from last week on I-player. Some interesting commentary and analysis of the decade, politics, trends, fashion - consumerisim, changes in buying habits, everyday life, decline of old industries, the rise of new ones and the nouveau rich etc...... 2nd part tonight. |
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Post by Vienna on Aug 11, 2016 18:35:09 GMT
I did see the series he did on the seventies a while back and thought it was quite well done. I suppose the eighties is one of his favourite decades as his is generally on the centre-right of British politics; he often writes articles for the Daily Mail on a Saturday. Sounds an interesting watch, Gerry  Vi |
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Post by Del Boy on Aug 11, 2016 19:50:06 GMT
Oh crap, I meant to record that. Thanks for the reminder.
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Post by Regan on Aug 11, 2016 22:48:10 GMT
Thanks for the heads up!.. Just watching it now on youtube - See below
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Post by Windy Miller on Aug 14, 2016 8:35:46 GMT
Sharp eyed viewers watching Part 2 may have spotted Lulu Cartwright.... in the piece on video nasties !!!!  |
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Post by The Saint on Aug 14, 2016 11:41:56 GMT
Just watching it now on the iPlayer, very interesting series The Saint |
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Post by Charles Bronson on Aug 14, 2016 17:41:10 GMT
I'm hoping to watch it on the iplayer myself this week.
I have a book by Sandbrook on The Seventies which I haven't gotten round to reading yet.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Aug 14, 2016 19:11:08 GMT
Quite interesting to watch for the archive footage though I'm not a fan of the Adam Curtis 'conspiracy theory' style of documentary making ( Adam Curtis made 'The Power Of Nightmares' & 'The Century Of Self' ) that Dominic Sandbrook uses where all things are made to seem linked. They'll pick a theme for each episode & make various different events & phenomena that they've chosen to include ( emergence of video games, the 'video nasty' panic, etc. ) fit the theme as if there was some grand design at work, it's a bit contrived & distorted I think. You have to be careful not to rewrite history.
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Post by Windy Miller on Aug 14, 2016 19:15:51 GMT
Quite interesting to watch for the archive footage though I'm not a fan of the Adam Curtis 'conspiracy theory' style of documentary making ( Adam Curtis made 'The Power Of Nightmares' & 'The Century Of Self' ) that Dominic Sandbrook uses where all things are made to seem linked. They'll pick a theme for each episode & make various different events & phenomena that they've chosen to include ( emergence of video games, the 'video nasty' panic, etc. ) fit the theme as if there was some grand design at work, it's a bit contrived & distorted I think. You have to be careful not to rewrite history.
Yes, it was interesting to learn in Part 1 that Britain’s most important woman in the eighties wasn’t Margaret Thatcher, but Delia Smith!  |
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Post by Steve Austin on Aug 14, 2016 19:52:20 GMT
What I find interesting is that the things we took for granted such as video games or nasties, AIDs etc were just things that were happening at the time but the way they are reported now is as if they were momentous and I guess in hindsight they were but when you are living through it it's just "normal".
I suppose that's how the 60's were to my parents and I wonder what things from today we'll look back on in the same vein. |
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