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A Bittersweet Decade

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America in the 1950s. A time when the front door was left unlocked, men tipped their hats to ladies, and the dream of a house with a lawn and a car seemed accessible to everyone. It was also, however, the time of the McCarthy witch-hunts, bomb shelters in the back yard and racial segregation. In the first of two talks, Raymond Seitz, former US Ambassador to the UK and a child of the fifties, looks back at what made that decade so special for Americans - then and now.
(Repeated from Sunday)

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Presenter:
Raymond Seitz
Producer:
Maria Balinska
Source: Radio Times

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