A series of eight films exploring the way women's lives have changed in the 20th century.
3: Thinking of England
'I'd never seen a man in the nude. I'd got seven brothers and I didn't know they'd even got ankles.'
In the days when chaste respectability was every girl's goal, a veil of silence cloaked all sexual matters. Girls were told that being alone with a man was dangerous, but not why. Few were told the facts of life.
While a man with a roving eye was considered a bit of a lad, a girl showing sexual awareness was in danger of being dismissed as a floosie or tart. Sixty years on, innocence is no longer seen as a virtue. From the days of chaperones through the swinging 60s to the AIDS era, frank reminiscences interwoven with contemporary documentary and feature film charts the course of the changing moral climate and the influences behind it.
Film research CHRISTINE WHITTAKER Film editor JIM LATHAM
Producer NIKKI CHEETHAM
(An exhibition based on the series can be seen at London 's National Theatre and a book, same name, is available, £6.95, from booksellers)