5. 1981

The Rest Is History

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4.6 • 26.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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As a new series of The Crown arrives on Netflix, returning viewers to the 1980s, we look back at the year many Britons consider the worst in living memory. Rocketing unemployment, riots in major cities and a country governed by the most divisive prime minister in post-war British history made 1981 a year to forget. Amidst the gloom was the wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana and the greatest Ashes fightback England cricket fans had ever seen. So what can we learn from a closer analysis of 1981? Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Rest is History. For bonus episodes, early access, add free
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0:30.8	Hello and as LP Hartley famously said, the past is a foreign country. They do things differently
0:37.1	there, but do they today on our episode of The Rest is History? We want to look at the very recent
0:45.4	past prompted by the return to Netflix of the Crown. But before we come to that, and I know,
0:52.8	Dominic, you'll be straining the leash about this because recent British history is very much
0:56.6	your subject, isn't it? So you're going to have lots to say. I just wanted to say to thank
1:02.2	everybody who's listening for having helped us get off to such a great start. It's fantastic.
1:08.5	We were a bit nervous about launching this, but we're thrilled that so many of you are out there
1:12.9	are listening and are emailing in and tweeting and contributing. And please do keep that going.
1:18.5	Yeah, well, it's quite a surprise isn't it, Tom? I was expecting a torrents of abuse. Well,
1:22.5	I mean, I obviously get torrents of abuse naturally on a sort of daily basis.
1:27.2	Anyway, so this is a nice break for me to. I was kind of expecting, I was expecting tumbleweed
1:31.9	to be honest. So neither abuse nor tumbleweed. So do please keep, you know, keep letting us know
1:38.4	what you think. Shall we read out some tweets? Shall we be a very good idea? Yeah, that'd be great.
1:42.6	We engage with the great British public. Yes. So we have somebody Alex Berson, he wrote,
1:48.5	thanks for doing it. The rest of his history is great. For your amusement,
1:52.0	Stephen the Great of Moldova was sanctified by the Orthodox Church in the 1990s and is now
1:56.4	Stephen the Great and Saint. He had four wives as Saint should and was known to be quick to spill
2:03.6	blood, but he built churches and defended Christianity. He was quite great. It's just that the saint
2:09.0	is both a late edition and amusing in the context of episode one. So there you go. Yeah, I mean,
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