Night Waves - The Early 1960s
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2013
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
As Andrew Lloyd Webber prepares to open his new musical about Profumo and Stephen Ward, Matthew Sweet explores 1963 - the year that 'sexual intercourse began' according to Philip Larkin's poem. Joining Matthew are Lord Hutchinson who defended Christine Keeler; journalist and campaigner Bea Campbell; actress and singer Lynda Baron; Don Black, lyricist for the musical Stephen Ward; Richard Davenport-Hines, author of An English Affair; and Geoffrey Robertson QC, leader of a campaign to clear Stephen Ward's name.
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| 0:21.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
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| 0:40.8 | slash radio three. Hello, good evening and welcome to Nightwaves. Tonight, it's 1963. It's over, |
| 0:48.3 | as Millicent Martin sang on. That was the week that was. Let it go. Except we can't, and we won't, because half a century later, |
| 0:56.2 | 1963 still feels like a red-letter year. |
| 0:59.7 | Whether you think of it as mirabulous or horribalus, it's still quite an anus. |
| 1:04.0 | Sexual intercourse began in 1963, which was rather late for me. |
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