The year of Stock Aitken Waterman, the Hillsborough disaster and the end of the Berlin Wall. Show more

Radio 2's audio journey through five decades reaches 1979. The Boomtown Rats don't like Mondays, Pink Floyd don't need no education and Madness are One Step Beyond. Show more

Introduced by Jeremy Vine. 1974 saw streaking, Wombling, Kung Fu Fighting and the three-day week. There were two general elections, Abba arrived and President Nixon departed. Show more

Radio 2's audio journey through five decades reaches 1978: The year of Grease and Sid Vicious, plus chart recognition for Baker Street, Wuthering Heights and YMCA. Show more

Introduced by Jeremy Vine. 1973 was the year of The Exorcist, the three-day week and the Watergate scandal, and Mike Oldfield launched a new record label with Tubular Bells. Show more

Jeremy Vine introduces an audio journey through five decades. 1952 featured the Queen's accession; the Great Smog; the Helsinki Olympics and Gene Kelly Singin' in the Rain. Show more

The year of Westland, Wapping and Red Wedge. Show more

The great drought, the American Bicentennial, Denis Healey and Jimmy Carter, with music from Joan Armatrading, the Eagles, Peter Frampton, the Damned and the Sex Pistols. Show more

year of Coe v Ovett, JR and Jona Lewie, new jobs for senior citizens Michael Foot and Ronald Reagan and the death of John Lennon. Show more

Introduced by Jeremy Vine. 1974 saw streaking, Wombling, Kung Fu Fighting and the three-day week. There were two general elections, ABBA arrived and President Nixon departed. Show more

Introduced by Jeremy Vine. 1969 was the year of the moon landing, John and Yoko's bed-in and Woodstock. Show more

Introduced by Jeremy Vine. 1968 was a turbulent year of assassination in America, protest in Paris and invasion in Prague. Show more

Introduced by Jeremy Vine. In 1962, the Beatles and Elvis Presley burst into the public consciousness. Plus the Cuban missile crisis and the death of film icon Marilyn Monroe. Show more

Concorde crash lands in France and an InterCity 225 derails at Hatfield, while George W Bush wins the US elections and Ken Livingstone becomes the first elected mayor of London. Show more

Introduced by Jeremy Vine. 1961 was the year of Chubby Checker and Checkpoint Charlie, Beyond the Fringe and Ban the Bomb - and Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Show more

Jeremy Vine introduces an audio journey through five decades. 1954 was the year of Roger Bannister's amazing four-minute mile, Tony Hancock and the Goons, mambo and the Teddy Boys. Show more

Jeremy Vine introduces an audio journey through five decades. 1958: the year of the hula hoop, the Munich air disaster and Eddie Cochran's Summertime Blues. Show more

Jeremy Vine introduces 1967, the year of Swinging London, Flower Power and the launch of Radio 1. The Beatles played to a worldwide audience and The Rolling Stones were in court. Show more

Introduced by Jeremy Vine. 1963 was the year of US president JFK's assassination, the great train robbery, the Mersey boom and That Was the Week That Was. Show more

Introduced by Jeremy Vine. 1966 was the year of England's World Cup triumph, psychedelia and Harold Wilson's wage freeze. Meanwhile, the war dragged on in south east Asia. Show more