1980s Britain: everything you wanted to know

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🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Lucy Robinson responds to your questions on Britain in the decade of Thatcherism, Live Aid, Bananarama and the rise of the yuppie It was the decade in which the Aids pandemic transformed our relationship with sex and sexuality, MTV transformed the way we consume music, Princess Diana transformed the relationship between royalty and the media and Margaret Thatcher transformed the political landscape. In our latest Everything you wanted to know episode, Spencer Mizen puts listener questions on 1980s Britain to historian and author Lucy Robinson. (Ad) Lucy Robinson is the author of Now That's What I Call a History of the 1980s: Pop Culture and Politics in the Decade That Shaped Modern Britain (Manchester University Press, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thats-What-Call-History-1980s/dp/1526167255/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.
0:05.0	A bit of a different thing going on this week.
0:07.3	You've been immature and you've lied.
0:10.3	And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.
0:13.9	I was trying to manipulate you.
0:15.7	Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.
0:18.1	I know, I'd be like, are you joking?
0:20.6	I don't know.
0:21.7	I guess you'd have to ask.
0:23.5	Someone that has sex.
0:24.2	Someone that has sex.
0:26.3	And remember, it's just between us.
0:32.3	Welcome to the History Extra podcast.
0:35.7	Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC
0:40.6	History Revealed.
0:50.1	It was the decade in which the AIDS pandemic transformed our relationship with sex and sexuality.
0:57.2	MTV transformed the way we consume music.
1:00.7	Princess Diana transformed the relationship between royalty and the media.
1:05.0	And Margaret Thatcher transformed the political landscape.
1:09.6	In this Everything You Wanted to Know episode,
1:12.4	we're dialing back the clock to discuss Britain in the 1980s. To answer your questions on the
1:18.9	subject, Spencer Mizzen sat down with the historian Lucy Robinson, the author of,
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