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The Shape of 68: Part 1

on BBC One London

The Year of the Monkey and Czechoslovakia... Mexico City... Jackie Onassis...'Likely Lady'... The Fosbury Flop... Richard Milhous Nixon... Sock-It-to-Me... 'Fearless'...
'Hair'... Foot and Mouth... Sir Ivor... Powellism... Biafra... British Standard Time... Ronan Point... Cathy Come Home again... Kennedy and King... Black Power... Student Revolt... The Pope and the Pill... French Revolution... Grosvenor Square and Londonderry... The Tet Offensive... Peace Talks... Mayor Richard Daley... Two-Tier Postage... The New Penny... The Old Franc... Jean Claude Killy... Busby's Dream... 2001... Apollo.... and all that

Tonight Cliff Michelmore looks back over the year 1968 and invites the opinions of some of the men and women who shaped it
including:
Helen Bowen, Christopher Brasher, George Brown, M.P., Sir Matt Busby, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, M.P., Dick Gregory, David Hemery, Graham Hill, Sir David Huddie, Cecil King, Basil D'Oliveira, Enoch Powell, M.P., Sir Alec Rose, Martin Tomkinson, Kenneth Tynan, Helen Vlachos, Lord Watkinson, Fr. Paul Weir, Kamil Winter
and recalls some of the Top Spots of 1968
starring Anne Bancroft, Judi Dench, Julie Driscoll, Marty Feldman, Jane Fonda, Massiel, Warren Mitchell, Derek Nimmo, Douglas Rain, Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele and Frank Sinatra

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Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Interviewee:
Helen Bowen
Interviewee:
Christopher Brasher
Interviewee:
George Brown
Interviewee:
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Interviewee:
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
Interviewee:
Dick Gregory
Interviewee:
David Hemery
Interviewee:
Graham Hill
Interviewee:
Sir David Huddie
Interviewee:
Cecil King
Interviewee:
Basil D'Oliveira
Interviewee:
Enoch Powell
Interviewee:
Sir Alec Rose
Interviewee:
Martin Tomkinson
Interviewee:
Kenneth Tynan
Interviewee:
Helen Vlachos
Interviewee:
Lord Watkinson
Interviewee:
Fr. Paul Weir
Interviewee:
Kamil Winter
Associate Producer:
Michael Hill
Associate Producer:
John Morrell
Producer:
Brian Winston
Editor:
Richard Francis

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