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🗓️ 17 January 2021
⏱️ 54 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.
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0:47.0 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine, Britain's best-selling |
1:08.8 | History magazine. I'm Ellie Corthorn. |
1:19.8 | Today's episode is the latest in our everything you wanted to know series. |
1:24.8 | Where expert historians respond to popular online search queries and questions that you've |
1:30.0 | submitted via our social media channels. This time, the topic is Britain in the 1960s |
1:37.4 | and our expert is the historian author and broadcaster Dominic Sandbrook, who's the author |
1:43.4 | of White Heat, a history of Britain in the swinging 60s. Putting the questions to him was BBC |
1:50.2 | History magazine editor Rob Atta. Today I'm delighted to be joined by Dominic Sandbrook |
1:56.0 | for the latest of our everything you wanted to know podcasts, which today is on Britain in the |
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