Broadcasting House: The Sixty-Eighters
January 30th, 2008 by Russell DaviesRupert Allman, editor of iPM, got in touch to recommend a segment from Broadcasting House on Sunday. He’s right, it’s terrific. Here’s the intro to the piece:
“They were the best of times they were the worst of times, as a generation came to its political senses. In 1968, alongside a string of protests in Democratic countries was a series of calamities that might overpower today’s mood swings. The world veered from disaster in Vietnam to the assassination of Martin Luther King and on to the Soviet clampdown in Prague and Bobbie Kennedy’s murder in a US Presidential Election year. They were the generation that gave us Jack Straw, Peter Hain and Hillary Clinton. Collectively, they’ve become known as the soixante-huitards and they’ve been given a warning; this is your last chance to influence politics. For BH Brian Hanrahan re-joins the sixty eighters: ”
MP3 here. Thanks Rupert.
