The Home That Two Built

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Mel Giedroyc

Gerry Dawson

William Naylor

Eve Pollard

Gyles Brandreth

Wayne Hemingway

Peter York

Prue Leith

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Alan Titchmarsh

The Home That 2 Built: Episode 2: The Seventies

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The Seventies

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Episode 2: The Seventies

BBC Two - The Home That 2 Built, The Seventies

Looking back at the 1970s, a world of dodgy fashion and stodgy food.

Mel Giedroyc narrates as The Seventies trawls the archives to show how BBC Two has been a guide to lifestyle trends.

Keeping track of lifestyle trends in the decade that style forgot was one of BBC Two's bigger challenges, as the deliciously arch narration of Bake Off's Mel Giedroyc reminds us in this amusing romp through the channel's archive. 

This, after all, was an era of dodgy fashion, stodgy food and bodged politics that had us running to escape into a world of stripped pine, country kitchens and Laura Ashley. But the programme shows that the 1970s also resemble our own times - from house price inflation and soaring energy costs through to worries about the threat to 'real' food and environmental sustainability.

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