A Year in the Life of the Swinging Sixties was broadcast yesterday on Radio 4 and is now available at BBC Sounds.
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It features clips of Pauline Boty alongside other contributors including Mary Quant and The Beatles from “The Public Ear”, a fortnightly programme on culture and entertainment she co-presented, including her thoughts on the popularity of romantic fiction! The programme ran from 6 October 1963–22 March 1964.
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“James Peak and Joan Bakewell find some incredible hidden BBC archive from 1963. Wait! Is that The Beatles? And Mary Quant? And Morecambe & Wise?
The Public Ear was a bold new arts show, broadcast on The Light Programme in 1963, which tried to make sense of all the amazing things that were happening in London and the UK in music, art, theatre, comedy, football, politics and feminism. Travel back in time for a Year in the Life of the Swinging Sixties, for archive unheard for these last 60 years – the precise moment that Beatlemania started and the National Theatre was founded, a time when broadcasters could ask people on the street who they’d drop a bomb on. Joan Bakewell was there the first time around and puts these amazing archive finds into context.” [from the programme website]
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The programme is available here: [link]
Pauline Boty 