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SCRIPT MP3 Memories of the 60’s Journalist: Pete, can you tell me what the 60s represent for you? Pete: The 60s to me were vibrant, exciting, original and fresh with all kinds of new ideas in lifestyle, culture, popular music, sexual freedom, film, television and politics. It was the time for radical thinking, big changes in the way the world was run, a whole new approach, to society’s way of doing things. The 60s decade witnessed the advent of “super models” like Twiggy and great photographers like David Bailey who photographed them. Journalist: Is that what you will remember most? Pete: Oh, no. I remember the fashions, the mini skirt, amazing! It was a great time for technology. I remember my first colour TV. Then came transistor radios… wow! So small and battery driven. Amazing times… I have a lot of very good memories of the music and just the good feeling that life was improving for all of us. Journalist: What about you Mike? Mike: Oh I completely agree with all that. It was a fabulous time. As for television, well, it was revolutionized in the 60s. At the beginning of the decade, we watched programs like Dr. Who on the old black and white sets, but by the late 60s, we had colour TV—mainly for sports programmes at first. That was in about 1968. At that time, we always rented our TVs… they were too expensive to buy. However, we DID have our own car. The 60s was the decade in which “ordinary families” could afford to buy cars. My parents passed their driving tests in 1965 and I have a photo of them proudly standing next to their first car—an Austin mini. Journalist: Cathy, you were born in 1951, you told me. Do you remember anything special about the decade? Cathy: Oh, yes! I clearly remember reading papers like The Mirror. They were so optimistic, literally crammed with pictures of things like the brand new Concorde, the Post Office Tower, the Mini, the hovercraft, things that left their mark in the 60s. And, of course, England 66. It was the first—and only—victory of England in the World Cup. They’ve never won it since! There was a real sense of “Look what we’ve achieved in the 1960s!” Journalist: You sound so enthusiastic when talking about the Sixties in London, that’s just incredible. Cathy: It was just amazing! I think Britain was really the place to be in the 60s! It was the world leader in fashion, pop music, films, television, social culture. This country had it all and produced it all, including world class pop groups like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones… In short, Great Britain, and especially London, was the cultural hub of the world! It was also a time when people also “experimented” with a lot of things.
SCRIPT MP3 Memories of the 60’s Journalist: Pete, can you tell me what the 60s represent for you? Pete: The 60s to me were vibrant, exciting, original and fresh with all kinds of new ideas in lifestyle, culture, popular music, sexual freedom, film, television and politics. It was the time for radical thinking, big changes in the way the world was run, a whole new approach, to society’s way of doing things. The 60s decade witnessed the advent of “super models” like Twiggy and great photographers like David Bailey who photographed them. Journalist: Is that what you will remember most? Pete: Oh, no. I remember the fashions, the mini skirt, amazing! It was a great time for technology. I remember my first colour TV. Then came transistor radios… wow! So small and battery driven. Amazing times… I have a lot of very good memories of the music and just the good feeling that life was improving for all of us. Journalist: What about you Mike? Mike: Oh I completely agree with all that. It was a fabulous time. As for television, well, it was revolutionized in the 60s. At the beginning of the decade, we watched programs like Dr. Who on the old black and white sets, but by the late 60s, we had colour TV—mainly for sports programmes at first. That was in about 1968. At that time, we always rented our TVs… they were too expensive to buy. However, we DID have our own car. The 60s was the decade in which “ordinary families” could afford to buy cars. My parents passed their driving tests in 1965 and I have a photo of them proudly standing next to their first car—an Austin mini. Journalist: Cathy, you were born in 1951, you told me. Do you remember anything special about the decade? Cathy: Oh, yes! I clearly remember reading papers like The Mirror. They were so optimistic, literally crammed with pictures of things like the brand new Concorde, the Post Office Tower, the Mini, the hovercraft, things that left their mark in the 60s. And, of course, England 66. It was the first—and only—victory of England in the World Cup. They’ve never won it since! There was a real sense of “Look what we’ve achieved in the 1960s!” Journalist: You sound so enthusiastic when talking about the Sixties in London, that’s just incredible. Cathy: It was just amazing! I think Britain was really the place to be in the 60s! It was the world leader in fashion, pop music, films, television, social culture. This country had it all and produced it all, including world class pop groups like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones… In short, Great Britain, and especially London, was the cultural hub of the world! It was also a time when people also “experimented” with a lot of things.