The 70s

Episode 1

Get It On, 70-72

Sandbrook is as interested in how ordinary people were changing Britain as he is in politicians. He reveals a country brimming with aspiration as millions get on the property ladder, take their first foreign holidays and start to challenge the old class boundaries to their lives. It was a decade in which ordinary British people first felt the thrill of freedom and money, but Sandbrook shows us it was also a decade in which raging conflicts about the economy and Europe loomed large.