Robert Robinson looks back on a time 'far enough away to be history - near enough still to belong to us.'
The series begins in January 1950. Robert Robinson was at Oxford, editing the University magazine Isis. Robin Day was President of the Oxford Union and Antony Armstrong-Jones was cox of the Cambridge boat-race crew. Recipes in Vogue suggested the use of 'half an egg'; everyone was worried about 'cosh-boys,' and a newsreel commentator referred to the Italian soccer team as 'acrobats from spaghettiland.'
The programme includes film of Britain's ill-fated racing car - the BRM - the top radio show Take It From Here - and the film of the month, The Forsyte Saga, with Errol Flynn as Soames.