The Rock 'n' Roll Years

Season 1

Music from a particular year is played and seen against clips of news and events of the time.

Where to Watch Season 1

8 Episodes

  • 1956
    E1
    1956Krushchev stays at Claridges; Frogman Crabb disappears; Britain retreats from the Suez; Diana Dors' appears as a woman condemned to death in YIELD TO THE NIGHT; Brigitte Bardot appears in AND GOD CREATED WOMAN plus sevral other films; "Ernie", the machine to be used in the draws of the premium savings bond scheme, is introduced.
  • 1957
    E2
    1957Chancellor Harold Macmillan becomes Conservative Prime Minister in January; Althea Gibson, an American, becomes the first black woman to win Wimbledon; the Wolfenden Report is published and Russia launches Sputnik 1 into space.
  • 1958
    E3
    1958Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Vivian Fuchs reach the South Pole; Manchester United football team's plane crashes at Munich when returning from Belgrade killing eight players; General De Gaulle comes out of retirement and is elected President of France; Elvis Presley is drafted into the US Army; Lady Docker is thrown out of Monaco.
  • 1959
    E4
    1959The news includes Castro's victory over Batista in Cuba, the Dalai Lama fleeing Tibet, the signing of an agreement between the Greeks and Turks in Cyprus, the Americans sending a monkey into space and Operation Noah saving thousands of African animals from drowning.
  • 1960
    E5
    1960The news includes trouble in Algeria, the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa, the election of John F Kennedy as President of the United States and the appearance of stiletto-heeled shoes in fashion.
  • 1961
    E6
    1961Gordon Lonsdale and four others are tried and convicted for spying; the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space; South Africa becomes a republic, Anti-Castro troops invade Cuba; Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West; the Berlin Wall is constructed, dividing West and East Berlin.
  • 1962
    E7
    1962John Glenn orbits the earth; the satellite TELSTAR beams the first live television pictures from America to Britain including the First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, doing the Twist; Bradford comes down with smallpox; Marilyn Monroe dies; the USA and Russia reach the brink of nuclear war over the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • 1963
    E8
    1963Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party dies; Harold Wilson becomes Leader of the Opposition in his place; Krushchev and Kennedy sign a nuclear test ban treaty; Martin Luther King leads the Washington civil rights march in the USA; John Profumo, Secretary of State for War resigns following allegations about his association with Christine Keeler; Henry Cooper knocks Cassius Clay out; John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas; the first episode of DR WHO is screened.

 

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