Now and then ..........The Roaring Twenties ...... and post Covid Britain

I am a great fan of the Radio 4 series the Long View, which seeks to explore comparisons with events today and similar ones in the past.

Entertainment, 1926, Josephine Baker, Paris

Today's programme turns on the expected burst in activity across the economy, politics, and the world as we move out of the stagnation which was Covid.

And for some that leads to that decade following the Great War when there was an explosion of new ways of doing things, from the Charleston to the age of the cinema.

"Break-neck technological innovation, a realignment in both British politics and the global order, a decade of economic boom and bust. Jonathan Freedland and his guests ask if the post-pandemic 1920s deserve their golden reputation and whether we're now on the brink of a second 'Roaring Twenties'.

Joining Jonathan to look back at the 1920s and forward to the 2020s are the historian Dr Luke Blaxill of the University of Oxford, the economists George Magnus and Dr Linda Yueh and journalists Tim Stanley of The Telegraph and John Harris of The Guardian. The actor is Beattie Edmondson.

Manchester, 2021 as Covid regulations are relaxed

Producer Julia Johnson"

Pictures; Josephine Baker dancing the Charleston at the Folies-Bergère, Paris, 1926, Walert, partying in Stevenson Square, 2021 from the collection of Andrew Simpson

*The Roaring Twenties, The Long View, Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wrjs