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Selling the Sixties

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Documentary about Madison Avenue, home of the American advertising business, a semi-mythical place where the dreams of a new, affluent society were spun in the early 1960s. These were the 'days of heaven', when the country felt to many like a land of plenty and a land of hope - politics was reinvigorated thanks to a product known as new, improved JFK, consumerism was on the up and the challenges of Vietnam, feminism and the counter-culture still lay in the future.

Includes contributions from advertising legend George Lois and writer Gay Talese. Show less

Contributors

Narrator:
Denis Lawson
Director:
Tim Kirby
Writer:
Tim Kirby
Executive Producer:
Janet Lee

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