Radio 2's audio journey through five decades reaches 1968. Jeremy Vine introduces a collage of the music, news, people and programmes - as they were heard at the time - without any commentary, analysis, or hindsight.
1968 is a turbulent year: Martin Luther King and Bobbie Kennedy both fall to assassin's bullets. Russian tanks snuff out the Prague Spring, Paris is in flames as students go on the rampage, and three American athletes give the black power salute at the Mexico Olympics. And the music reflects the mood: Arthur Brown's Fire, Jose Feliciano's Light My Fire and Julie Driscoll's This Wheel's on Fire. Show less