Music in the Night
Our new microsite takes you behind the scenes of Radio Luxembourg in 1965: from the staff to the adverts, from how to buy airtime to how to visit… and packed with audio clips recorded by Transdiffusion at the time!
Russ J Graham
Russ J Graham is editor-in-chief of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System and also runs the Retropia and Televault chain of websites. He was not around in the 1960s, but has studied the period academically and for fun for many years.
The Forsyte Saga
BBC-2’s biggest hit
Dream Topping
A cheap and cheerful – and tasty! – replacement for cream
Colour TV
Real life colour is here!
Val Parnell’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium
The nation’s top variety artists, every Sunday night.
Nourishment
When everything was filled with goodness and nourishment.
Drink driving
The breathalyser arrives to save lives
Fly away
The standard British holiday changed forever as the egg and chips moved from Morecambe to Majorca.
Cathy Come Home
A play that changed 1960s society
Stamps
Probably the most popular hobby of the 1950s, stamp collecting was still a huge pastime for children and young adults of the 1960s.