Episodes
Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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Week Ending 10th August 1968 | 20080810 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. Sirhan Sirhan appears in court to answer charges of murdering Senator Bobby Kennedy. As crisis talks between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union finish, Czech people are assured reforms will continue. Following the Ronan Point disaster, Canning Town Residents Association fight attempts to rehouse victims in tower blocks. Richard Nixon wins the Republican Party's nomination for the Presidential election. |
Week Ending 11th May 1968 | 20080511 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. |
Week Ending 13th April 1968 | 20080413 | Thousands line the streets at Martin Luther King's funeral. Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa |
Week Ending 13th July 1968 | 20080713 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. Anti-racism marchers clash with Enoch Powell supporters in Whitehall, leading to 23 arrests. 5,000 protest in Hyde Park in favour of legalising cannabis. The Bank of England announces a large international loan to stave off financial problems. Eric Clapton announces the break-up of Cream. Singer Frankie Vaughan becomes an unlikely mediator between violent Glasgow youth gangs. |
Week Ending 15th June 1968 | 20080615 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. ETA carry out their first assassination. Martin Luther King's killer is caught at Heathrow. President Tito concedes to protesting students. General Westmoreland leaves Vietnam with a bleak prediction for the war's future. A drowned boy becomes a martyr for Paris students. Daniel Cohn-Bendit arrives in London. Dr Spock is tried for helping evade conscription. |
Week Ending 17th August 1968 | 20080817 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. 48 passengers die in an air crash near Munich. Many are injured when a stand collapses at the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Kempton Park. Leonard Cohen appears on the BBC's Top Gear radio programme. Riots in Los Angeles leave three dead. Two deputy editors of the Czech Communist party newspaper are suspended. Record producer Mickie Most explains the secret of his success. |
Week Ending 18th May 1968 | 20080518 | Students riot in Bonn. Noele Gordon quits Crossroads. A strike brings Paris to a halt. Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa |
Week Ending 1st June 1968 | 20080601 | Welsh nationalist extremists set off another bomb. Manchester United win the European Cup. Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa |
Week Ending 20th April 1968 | 20080420 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. Protests and riots spread across Europe in response to the attempted assassination of West German student leader Rudi Dutschke. America changes tactics in Vietnam, industrial unrest deepens in Britain, school children are caught up in the protest culture and Enoch Powell delivers his notorious Rivers of Blood speech. |
Week Ending 20th July 1968 | 20080720 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. Southampton busmen protest against pay freezes with a go-slow campaign. Seatbelt laws come into effect. Bastille Day sees protestors back on the streets of Paris. Sir Hugh Greene announces he is to retire as the BBC's Director General. President Abdel-Rahman Aref of Iraq is overthrown in a coup that brings Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party to power. Labour beat off a strong challenge from Plaid Cymru's Phil Williams in the Caerphilly by-election. |
Week Ending 22nd June 1968 | 20080622 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. Women at Ford's Dagenham plant go on strike. Roy Jenkins warns the House Of Lords not to oppose the Commons. Planes are grounded as a pilots' strike begins at Heathrow. Hubert Humphrey and Nelson Rockefeller launch their campaigns for the US presidency. |
Week Ending 23rd March 1968 | 20080323 | Including anti-Vietnam riots in London and the Duke of Edinburgh's live TV interview. Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa |
Week Ending 24th August 1968 | 20080824 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. Soviet troops begin their invasion of Czechoslovakia. Sixty Roman Catholic Priests join a revolt against the Pope's ban on the Pill. A BBC programme examines democracy in America. Opposition to the Pope's ruling against artificial birth control mounts. Two planes collide over the busy Norfolk town of Holt. |
Week Ending 25th May 1968 | 20080525 | Forged tickets cause havoc at the cup final. Strikes almost bring France to a standstill. Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa |
Week Ending 27th April 1968 | 20080427 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. 5,000 protest in Trafalgar Square against the military junta in Greece. Enoch Powell is dismissed from Edward Heath's Shadow Cabinet after his 'Rivers of Blood' speech. Decimal coins are introduced. Martin Luther King's widow delivers his 10 Commandments on Vietnam. Enoch Powell is sacked from Edward Heath's front bench after his 'Rivers of Blood' speech. |
Week Ending 27th July 1968 | 20080727 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. Vietnam Peace talks take place in Honolulu. Jane Asher announces that she has split from Paul McCartney. A protest against the Vietnam war erupts into violence in London's Grosvenor Square. An El Al flight is hijacked by three Palestinian militants. After two police officers are shot, there is widespread rioting in Cleveland, Ohio. A man is found crucified on a seven-foot cross on Hampstead Heath. |
Week Ending 29th June 1968 | 20080629 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. Barbara Cartland proposes a novel solution to the UK's productivity crisis. The first round of elections takes place in France. Foot and mouth restrictions are lifted in the UK. Violence erupts on the streets of Glasgow. Labour loses the Nelson and Colne by-election. |
Week Ending 30th March 1968 | 20080330 | Czechoslovakia's new president is sworn in and Martin Luther King protests in Memphis. Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa |
Week Ending 31st August 1968 | 20080831 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. Protests against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia continue. Cricketer Basil D'Oliveira is controversially left out of the squad to tour South Africa. Hubert Humphrey is chosen as the Democratic candidate for the White House. |
Week Ending 3rd August 1968 | 20080803 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. Mick Jagger previews the new Rolling Stones album Beggars Banquet. Preliminary peace talks between Nigeria and breakaway Biafra end inconclusively. The Archbishop of Canterbury disagrees with the Pope's recent ruling against artificial means of contraception. The first ever episode of Dads' Army is aired on BBC TV. Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan calls for an honourable peace in Vietnam. |
Week Ending 4th May 1968 | 20080504 | Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa. |
Week Ending 6th April 1968 | 20080406 | Riots sweep across America following the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King. Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa |
Week Ending 6th July 1968 | 20080706 | With John Tusa. Including the return home of round-the-world yachtsman Alec Rose. Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa |
Week Ending 8th June 1968 | 20080608 | Robert Kennedy is assassinated. One of the last public executioners shows a sensitive side Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with John Tusa |