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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.