Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know

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🗓️ 17 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Dominic Sandbrook answers popular search queries and listener questions about Britain in the 1960s Did the Sixties really swing? Why did the decade see such an explosion of popular culture? And what were the top sellers in the supermarket? Historian, author and broadcaster Dominic Sandbrook answers popular search queries and questions you submitted about Britain in the 1960s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.5	Personal contract purchase, subject status and availability, T's and Zs 18 plus,
0:29.8	excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's
0:45.9	best-selling history magazine.
0:56.3	I'm Ellie Gawthorne.
1:01.9	Today's episode is the latest in our Everything You Wanted to Know series,
1:05.8	where expert historians respond to popular online search queries and questions that you've submitted via our social media channels.
1:10.6	This time, the topic is Britain in the 1960s, and our expert is the historian, author and
1:17.5	broadcaster Dominic Sambrook, who's the author of White Heat, a history of Britain in the
1:23.5	swinging 60s. Putting the questions to him was BBC History Magazine editor Rob Atar.
1:30.8	Today I'm delighted to be joined by Dominic Sandbrook for the latest of our Everything
1:34.9	You Wanted to Know podcasts, which today is on Britain in the 1960s. Dominic's a historian author
1:41.5	and broadcaster who's written several books and presented many
1:45.0	series on post-war Britain, including White Heat, A History of Britain in the Swinging 60s, which is
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