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State of Emergency The Way We Were Britain, 19701974 [Audiobook]
B00AXVWLAI M4B@64 kbps English | January 07, 2013 | ASIN: B00AXVWLAI | M4B@64 kbps | 32h 8m | 885 MB Author: Dominic Sandbrook | Narrator: David Thorpe In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. Now the headlines were dominated by strikes and blackouts, unemployment and inflation. As the world looked on in horrified fascination, Britain seemed to be tearing itself apart. And yet, amid the gloom, glittered a creativity and cultural dynamism that would influence our lives long after the nightmarish Seventies had been forgotten. Dominic Sandbrook has recreated the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies: the world of Enoch Powell and Tony Benn, David Bowie and Brian Clough, Germaine Greer and Mary Whitehouse.