What's So Great About '68?
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Greg and Bella welcome back Drama teacher Mr Yale with a lesson about the year 1968.
'68 might seem to fall through the history books - dwarfed by other more dramatic years - but Mr Yale is here to make a case for it being a turning point year. Vietnam and the Space Race were in the news; Oliver! was on the cinema screens; and the Theatres Act 1968 lead to this year being known as the "Year Zero for British Theatre" with the first performance of Hair the Musical taking the West End by storm (starring none other than Elaine Paige!). Mr Yale will use these real events as a springboard to take Greg and Bella through some classic drama practicals - from who can best embody the voice of a significant object from '68 - to is Bella brave enough to let Greg catch her when she falls?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question, |
| 0:08.0 | just how great was 1968? |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Greg James, I'm Bella Mackie is teach me a lesson the podcast that seeks out the finest teaching talent in the world and asks them for their favorite lesson |
| 0:20.0 | and all we have to do all of us and including, listening to this right now, is just listen and enjoy and learn. |
| 0:27.0 | We are inviting back some of our favorite teachers from previous series and we are |
| 0:38.6 | delighted to welcome back one of our absolute favorite teachers from term |
| 0:41.9 | two he taught us everything we need to know about being our real one of our absolute favorite teachers from term two. |
| 0:42.7 | He taught us everything we need to know about being our real selves. |
| 0:45.9 | It's drama teacher, Mr Yale! |
| 0:47.9 | Hi guys, you are right. |
| 0:49.9 | We are! |
| 0:50.8 | We're really all right, and your lesson was one of my absolute favorites if not my |
| 0:56.4 | favorite from the last series and I've been thinking about it a lot and |
| 0:59.9 | me and Bella talked about it a lot and it really it really changed my outlook on lots of things |
| 1:05.2 | So that's one of the reasons you're back. Thank you so much. |
| 1:07.6 | Mr. Yell I hear that you've had a promotion I did. Yeah, I'm now I'm head of drama at my old school which is absolutely crazy and I'd like to thank you both for that because I think it might have been the recording of this amazing podcast that got me that promotion. |
| 1:24.0 | I think it definitely was, yeah, I'm taking the credit. |
| 1:26.6 | I just played it, press play and then I just gave it to my headteach and I just walked out |
| 1:30.5 | and I said just listen and but no thank you both so much yeah yeah |
| 1:33.8 | so crazy times but I've gone up yeah yeah so you're the head of drama at the |
| 1:38.4 | non-thorpe Academy in Middlesbrough let's introduce again, okay, from one of your current pupils, |
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