James Cameron presents a personal account of Britain in the post-war years in ten programmes covering 1945-56.
8: ' There was a snob thing going on at that time where peoplewouldsay,"no,1don't have the television set, but the butler has one or the maid has." ' (EAMONN ANDREWS) In 1952 just over a million television sets were tuned weekly to What's My Line?, but by June 1953 over 20 million viewers watched the Coronation, and in between.... the new British Comet jet airliner made its debut, the new Conservative Government built its houses and brought down Income Tax, London had one of its worst smogs, gales and floods drowned the East Coast, General Eisenhower became President Eisenhower, Charlie Chaplin was refused re-entry totheusa,Englandwonthe Ashes, Stalin died and Hillary climbed Mount Everest. Britain had begun the new Elizabethan Age.
Producers HELEN FRY and GWYNETH HENDERSON