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Season 1

  • S01E01 All Change for the West

    • June 1, 2016
    • BBC One

    Michael Portillo traces the route of a much-loved railway line which shut in 1966, and explores the changes convulsing the west in this momentous year.

  • S01E02 Bulldozers, Beatniks and Board Riders

    • June 1, 2016
    • BBC One

    Angela Rippon looks back at 1966 in the south west, the year that launched her television career - and a fashion and surf revolution.

  • S01E03 London Through a Lens

    • June 1, 2016
    • BBC One

    In 1966, Time magazine declared London the 'swinging' capital of the world. Now, 50 years on, Patsy Kensit explores what the year was really like, via five of her favourite photographs that capture London life in '66.

  • S01E04 Making the Midlands

    • June 1, 2016
    • BBC One

    Adrian Chiles uses rarely seen archive film and talks some of those who were newly arrived in the west Midlands about the racism they encountered in 1966.

  • S01E05 Moving with the Times

    • June 1, 2016
    • BBC One

    Annie Nightingale takes us on a tour of what and who was getting us moving in 1966 in the south.

  • S01E06 Newcastle A GoGo

    • June 1, 2016
    • BBC One

    Charlie Hardwick looks back on the Swinging Sixties in the north east - and asks how far the social and musical revolution changed our lives.

  • S01E07 Pop, Pirates and Postmen

    • June 1, 2016
    • BBC One

    Steve Lamacq draws on an archive of home movies, photographs, diaries and gadgets to tell the story of teenage life in the east of England during 1966.

  • S01E08 Robert Lindsay Remembers

    • June 1, 2016
    • BBC One

    Robert Lindsay reminisces about 1966, the year that took him away from his working-class roots in Ilkeston to London's West End and beyond.

  • S01E09 Stuart Maconie Looks Back

    • June 1, 2016
    • BBC One

    Stuart Maconie looks back to 1966 when the Beatles, George Best, casinos, slum clearances and the early stirrings of women's lib were making headlines.

  • S01E10 Suits, Boots and Northern Roots

    • June 1, 2016
    • BBC One

    Scriptwriter Kay Mellor celebrates her memories of 1966, remembering the fashion, the music and the new high-rise housing.

  • S01E11 The Education Revolution

    • June 1, 2016
    • BBC One

    Simon Fanshawe explores the year of 1966 through the eyes of students at two brand new universities - Kent and Sussex - both at the forefront of social and political change in Britain.