Original version

BBC Two

Knowledge, drama, comedy and the arts for a broad adult audience.

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

BBC Two England

BBC Two is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964.

BBC 2

BBC2

BBC Two (England)

England

Simulcast of network BBC One in high definition. From 03/11/2010

BBC One HD

The BBC West region started on 1st September 1957 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One West.

BBC One West

The BBC South West region started on 20th April 1961 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One South West.

BBC One South West

The BBC South region started on 5th January 1961 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One South.

BBC One South

BBC One London

London

BBC One West Midlands

BBC One region covering Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.

BBC One East Midlands

The BBC East region started on 1st May 1959 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One East.

BBC One East

BBC One North West

The BBC North East & Cumbria region started in 1959 (tbc) as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One North East & Cumbria.

BBC One North East & Cumbria

BBC One Yorkshire

BBC One Oxfordshire

Formerly part of a wider BBC One South East region that included London and part of the South region. Separated from BBC One London 2001-09-03 following reorganisation of the South East region.

BBC One South East

BBC One Cambridgeshire

BBC One Channel Islands

BBC One Yorks & Lincs

BBC One Scotland

Scotland

BBC Northern Ireland region started on 19th April 1955 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One Northern Ireland.

BBC One Northern Ireland

BBC One Wales

Wales

BBC Two Scotland

BBC Two Northern Ireland

Until 03/01/2009 BBC Two Wales (analogue) was known simply as BBC Two Wales. BBC Two Wales (digital) was BBC 2W. From 03/01/2009 BBC Two Wales schedules on both analogue and digital became identical

BBC Two Wales

Rewind the 60s

Lulu undefined

John Craven

Charlie Ross

Sanjeev Bhaskar

William Roache

Pete Lawrence

Gerard Melling

Susie Staples

Rewind the 60s: Episode 2: 1962-63

Documentaries

Factual: History

Episode 2

Episode 2: 1962-63

1962-63

BBC One - Rewind the 60s, 1962-63

Lulu is joined in the studio by actors Sanjeev Bhaskar and William Roache.

Lulu presents a nostalgic look back at the 1960s. She is joined in the studio by Sanjeev Bhaskar, star of new BBC drama series The Indian Doctor, and actor William Roache.

Today Lulu is Rewinding back to the years 1962 and 1963. These were the years when the world held its breath during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and when the assassination of President Kennedy shocked the everyone.  Closer to home, the establishment was being shaken by the Profumo affair and the new satirists behind That Was The Week that Was.

Today it is Sanjeev Bhaskar, currently starring in the BBC’s 60s period-drama The Indian Doctor, who joins Lulu in the Rewind the 60s studio. Sanjeev explains how his parents were a lot like the characters in his series: economic migrants who came to these shores and experienced a welcome that showed the British at their best and their worst. As we focus on the years 1962 and 1963, we meet Daman and Chand, a couple originally from India who were among the 100,000 people who managed to beat a crackdown on immigration that was introduced in 1962. Together, they made a new and successful life for themselves in Coventry. 

Actor William Roache joins Lulu and Sanjeev to talk about 50 years of Coronation Street. William is the only one of the original cast who still stars in the show. “Initially I only signed a six-week contract. It’s been a very long six weeks”, he chuckles. We hear about the effects of Dr Beeching’s shake-up of the railways, and meet Robin and Keith, two railwaymen who lost their jobs when 5,000 miles of railways were closed. Charlie Ross celebrates the invention of the lava lamp – brainchild of ex-World War Two fighter pilot and naturist Edward Craven Walker. Walker’s creation -  based on an egg timer of all things – would become a classic of 1960s design.

And we hear about the freezing winter of '62/'63. It snowed somewhere in Britain every day for two whole months, and those who endured it will always remember that winter as one of the century’s worst. As snow blanketed the country, Trudo, a mother of four living in a remote area of Dartmoor, found herself and her family snowed in. She tells us how she had to brave deep snow-drifts to dig out her sheep who were all buried in the snowfall.  We also hear from David, one of the staff at Fylingdales radar station in Yorkshire who, along with his colleagues, was snowed in at work for the best part of a week. Hundreds of them eventually made a dangerous dash for safety across the moors in sub-Arctic conditions: an experience they’ll remember for the rest of their lives.

BBC One

Lulu presents a nostalgic look at the 1960s, with personal stories and celebrity guests.

Lulu presents a nostalgic look back at the 1960s, with personal stories and celebrity guests with a connection to the decade.

It is now fifty years since the start of the 1960s – ten years of change, innovation, excitement and creativity that revolutionised our lives. To celebrate this amazing decade, Lulu presents Rewind the 60s - five entertaining programmes that explore all aspects of the 1960s: from where we lived, to what we ate, to how we dressed, and what we listened to. With the help of some very special guests, Lulu shows us how that extraordinary decade transformed Britain and the world forever – and how much fun it was to live through.

These were the years when John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated; when we first saw James Bond and Doctor Who on our screens; when we marvelled at England’s victory in the World Cup; and student protests filled the streets. It was the decade of the moon landing; when foreign holidays took a hold among the British, and all kinds of boundaries and taboos were broken. Each episode of Rewind the Sixties looks at two specific years from the decade, exploring the news, fashions, music, and changes in society that took place in those two years. 

Lulu is joined in the Rewind the 60s studio by various celebrity guests – people like comedian Jimmy Tarbuck, DJ Tony Blackburn and fashion designer Zandra Rhodes – to talk about their memories of the decade. And there are specially made films focussing on key events – like the rise of The Beatles, and Dr Beeching’s railway reforms – which are told through the testimony of people who were there and whose own lives were dramatically changed by what they lived through.  

So why not join Lulu on Rewind the 60s – when Britain turned it’s back on the drab austerity of the post-war years, and embraced an exhilarating new world of youth, colour, and pop music.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Rewind the 60s

Episode 2: 1962-63

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Series

BBC Two England

About BBC Two