Michael Portillo traces the route of a much-loved railway line which shut in 1966, and explores the changes convulsing the west in this momentous year.

Exploring 1966 through the eyes of students at two new universities - Kent and Sussex - both at the forefront of social and political change in Britain. Show more

Annie Nightingale takes a tour of what and who was getting people moving in 1966 in the south. Show more

Charlie Hardwick looks back on the Swinging Sixties in the region and asks how far the social and musical revolution changed people's lives. Show more

Fifty years after Time magazine dubbed London the swinging capital of the world, Patsy Kensit explores what 1966 was really like through five favourite photos. Show more

Robert Lindsay reminisces about 1966, the year that took him away from his working-class roots in Ilkeston to London's West End and beyond. Show more

Stuart Maconie looks back to 1966 when the Beatles, George Best, casinos, slum clearances and the early stirrings of women's lib were making headlines. Show more

Angela Rippon looks back at 1966 in the south west, the year that launched her television career - and a fashion and surf revolution.

Adrian Chiles uses rarely seen archive film and talks some of those who were newly arrived in the west Midlands about the racism they encountered in 1966. Show more

Scriptwriter Kay Mellor celebrates her memories of 1966, remembering the fashion, the music and the new high-rise housing. Show more

Steve Lamacq draws on an archive of home movies, photographs, diaries and gadgets to tell the story of teenage life in the east of England during 1966. Show more