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Rewind the 60s: Episode 4: 1966-67

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Episode 4: 1966-67

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BBC One - Rewind the 60s, 1966-67

Lulu presents a nostalgic look back at the 1960s

Lulu presents a nostalgic look back at the 1960s. Radio DJ Tony Blackburn joins Lulu in the studio, talking about what it was like to be catapulted to stardom on Radio 1.

Today, Lulu is joined by DJ and broadcaster Tony Blackburn in the Rewind the 60s studio, and the two share their memories of 1966 and 1967.  It was the age of psychedelia, flower power, and free love, and for Tony especially these were momentous times. A successful pirate radio DJ, Tony had an offer to come ashore and join a new BBC radio station just starting up.  It was to be known as Radio 1. He tells Lulu about the experience of first walking into the BBC: everyone was in hippy gear while he turned up wearing a suit and tie. His stint on the new Radio 1 breakfast show broke new ground in broadcasting, and within a matter of weeks Tony was the most famous DJ in Britain.

Elsewhere, lives were being changed by tragedy.  We hear an intensely emotional account of what it was like to be caught up in the Aberfan disaster. Gaynor was one of the 200 children inside Pantglas Junior school when it was engulfed by a landslide of mud and debris from Aberfan’s coal tip. She tells us how she lost a sister and brother in the disaster, and movingly recounts how she survived that fateful day.  

Other news headlines included England winning the 1966 World Cup, a victory which was given the rare honour of being immortalised on the 4d stamp; Hendrix was in a Purple Haze; the Severn Bridge opened. And Lulu tells us how she first heard The Beatles’ LP Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band when she was round at John Lennon’s house. 

Photographer Philip Townsend takes us on a tour of Carnaby Street and Swinging London.  Through his skills with a camera, Townsend found himself at the centre of the 60s zeitgeist. Even though he was hanging out with the likes of The Rolling Stones, he didn’t realise the importance of the moment he was part of: “I didn’t look on them as famous or special. They were just going around trying to make a penny like the rest of us.” 

We also learn how British food changed, as supermarkets and overseas travel led to a broadening of the British palate. We meet Brian Cotterill who enjoyed the honour of being the youngest British chef in a top London restaurant, Le Caprice, and who cooks for us one of his signature dishes. And Charlie Ross explores how new technology revolutionised the way we listened to music, with the portable transistor radio becoming ubiquitous, along with the immortal Dansette record player.

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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.

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