About this season
Going on a journey through the sixties, seventies, and eighties through archive footage, and recorded testimony of the time, to rediscover the decades that defined us.
Episodes (3)
1. The Sixties
Aired 17 August 2022 • 44 min
Explores the 1960s, a decade that saw new hope, new divisions and the emergence of a counterculture that would redefine society. Key topics include Kennedy, Martin Luther King and the Cold War.
2. The Seventies
Aired 24 August 2022 • 44 min
Examines how the 1970s, a decade that included the Watergate scandal, the election of Margaret Thatcher and changing ideas about the West's place in international affairs, helped shape the modern world.
3. The Eighties
Aired 31 August 2022 • 44 min
Computers, Chernobyl, fall of the Berlin Wall - the decade that saw politics shift to the right, reshaping the West, while democracy would triumph as the Berlin Wall fell.