Now I lived the 60s, with all its brash new ways of doing things, from music to fashion and much else.
But it was also the decade in which we seemed to be marching to a nuclear disaster with a backdrop of the Cold War, manifested by the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis and countless nasty little proxy wars fought with the support of the Superpowers who used them as a form of shadow boxing, and many of which could have spilled over into a Third World War.
Of these, the Vietnam War was the most prominent, but there were plenty more in Africa, South America and Asia.
All of which is just a plug for another new Radio 4 series, which this time comes from the political historian Peter Hennessy who reads "from his new study of Britain in the early 1960s.
Peter grew up in Nympsfield in the Cotswolds and, apart from the excitements of new music from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, satirical TV in the form of That Was the Week that Was and the coming of the first motorways, those adolescent days were overshadowed by the threat of nuclear war. Not least in the form of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s top-secret nuclear-proof stronghold, code-named Stockwell, which was being built just a few miles away.
Written and Read by Peter Hennessy
Adapted for radio by Libby Spurrier
Produced by Simon Elmes
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4”*
Picture; Atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, Charles Levy from one of the B-29 Superfortresses used in the attack, This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties
Stockwell ……..Winds of Change, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000823h
Of these, the Vietnam War was the most prominent, but there were plenty more in Africa, South America and Asia.
All of which is just a plug for another new Radio 4 series, which this time comes from the political historian Peter Hennessy who reads "from his new study of Britain in the early 1960s.
Peter grew up in Nympsfield in the Cotswolds and, apart from the excitements of new music from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, satirical TV in the form of That Was the Week that Was and the coming of the first motorways, those adolescent days were overshadowed by the threat of nuclear war. Not least in the form of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s top-secret nuclear-proof stronghold, code-named Stockwell, which was being built just a few miles away.
Written and Read by Peter Hennessy
Adapted for radio by Libby Spurrier
Produced by Simon Elmes
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4”*
Picture; Atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, Charles Levy from one of the B-29 Superfortresses used in the attack, This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties
Stockwell ……..Winds of Change, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000823h
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