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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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As Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup
at Wembley...

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CHEERING

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..the summer of 1966
became the stuff of legend.

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We were on top of the world.

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The euphoria still hasn't worn off
50 years later.

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In that moment, Britain went from
grainy black and white

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to glorious Technicolor,

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and across the country,
people's lives were doing the same.

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We love talking about many, many
subjects, but here's something.

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1966, it was such an exciting time.

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What were you doing?

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Revolutionary times,
without a doubt.

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I just had sex with someone.

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I didn't really bother
to get clearance from anyone.

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Erm...

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Did you take drugs?

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Did you do blueys?

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Would you call keep-awake pills
drugs today?

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Do you remember the World Cup?

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Men in short shorts.

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Oh, happy days!

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That's me there.
I used to score with a lot of girls!

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It was a golden moment for Britain -
the peak of the '60s wave -

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but what was life
really like at the time?

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The big problem in those days for me
was my sexuality,

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because it was illegal.

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So, you live a lie.

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'66, I was living a lie.

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We were caught between
the old world and the new.

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I honestly never felt,
at any time during 1966, secure,

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and one was just sort of hoping,

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digging in until
something good came along.

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It's interesting, isn't it? 1966.

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Give us a ring.

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CHEERING

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We all remember the World Cup final,

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but what about the other 364 days
of the year?

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The real revolution of '66
was happening

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far away from the football pitch,

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in the lives of a new generation
who would shape modern Britain.

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As the bells struck 12
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23-year-old Chris and 18-year-old
Linda were seeing in the New Year

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in Central London.

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They had no idea what was
just around the corner.

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To celebrate New Year's Eve,

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I went with some friends to
the Blind Beggar pub.

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A few of the lads that we'd met
took us back to the train.

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We happened to be talking about
where we were going and I said,

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"Oh, I'm going to Barking."

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And they both said, "No, you're not.
The train's going the wrong way."

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And I went, "Oh, no."

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Chris said to me,
"I'll take you home, if you like."

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I was shy, to be honest - very shy.

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It was meeting Linda
that brought me out of myself.

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So, for me to have picked up Linda
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was totally out of character,

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so something must have happened,
mustn't it?

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MUSIC: Land Of 1,000 Dances
by Wilson Pickett

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Chris wasn't the only one
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The grey post-war days of the 1950s
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a new generation determined to live
a very different kind of life.

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21 years on from the end of the war,
modern Britain was coming of age.

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I was aware that things were
changing, usually through music.

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Everything was different
from the way Ma and Pa

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and Uncle John and Uncle Bill
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It was a freedom in the '60s,
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There was no...
"the generation before".

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The older ones, well,
stayed at home, I should imagine,

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but the youngsters
thought it belonged to them.

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You know, if you wanted to do it,
you did it.

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If you wanted to wear whatever
you wore, you wore it, so...

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You were there to enjoy, you know,
so I did.

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We did. Yeah, we did. Yeah.

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In 1966, over 40% of the population
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including every member of
the Beatles and the Stones.

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In just a few short years,

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British pop music
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and inspired a huge shift
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Time Magazine declared
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and it certainly seemed to be true.

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London in 1966 is the equivalent of
Florence during the Renaissance,

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or something. It's like the peak,
the place to be, and I was there.

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Much of London was still
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but in the very centre was
a splash of colour - Soho.

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Fashionable Carnaby Street was the
destination by day, but after dark,

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there was only one place to be seen
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a rough and ready basement club
called the Flamingo.

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Well, the thing about the Flamingo
was it was really packed and sweaty.

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It was a really hot atmosphere.

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There was a bit of an edge
to the Flamingo.

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There was a bit of a dodgy...
gangster vibe about it.

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It was fabulous.

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Run by Johnny Gunnell
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the Flamingo often stayed open
until dawn.

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In '66, Eddie Tan-Tan
was playing trumpet

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for Georgie Fame's house band,
the Blue Flames,

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though sometimes,
it was more than just music

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keeping the party jumping.

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The raids. The raids.
Oh, the raids! The red...

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The red light would come on and
everybody throwing it on the floor.

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I got jailed at one of those nights.

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He arrested me, and took me to
West End Central. Yeah.

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They searched me - I had £600 on me.

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Yeah, yeah. £600. Yeah.

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"Ha! Purple heart dealer, are ya?"

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Ah, yeah!

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In the whole of London,

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where else could you find a club
like the Flamingo? No, no...

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Nowhere. There wasn't even one
that was close.

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For the 23-year-old GI
Geno Washington,

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the Flamingo was like a second home.

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It's got a great vibration in there.

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What you need,
an American away from home...

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it's just so right, this music.

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The Flamingo was soon to
give Geno his big break.

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I went and asked Georgie, "Could I
sing a song with your band and you?"

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He said, "Can you sing?"

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I said, "Sing?

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"Well, my sister is in
Martha and the Vandellas

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"and my auntie is Dinah Washington."

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Of course, I'm lying, you know.

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I'm lying my tail off.

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They started up
and I hit that singing, man,

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and the house was rocking. You know?

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I was very popular with the ladies,
you know?

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Yes, yes, yes.
I didn't have to beg no more.

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On the edge of Soho,

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19-year-old Janet was in her
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one of only a handful of girls
in her year.

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When I go see Georgie Fame,
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In my diary, that's rated
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as everything else.

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"Go to see Georgie Flame
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11th of July, "Start work, Wembley,
four weeks. Yuck."

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the college had said
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We had to work in
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I thought,
"Oh, my God, it's real people."

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Anyway, my father,

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he pulled a load of strings
to get me a job

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as a temporary architectural
assistant, and he said,

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"For Christ's sake, whatever you do,
don't embarrass me."

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And yet I turned up at their offices
on Wembley High Road

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in a very, very short miniskirt
with the silver hair

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and they asked me
if I was the new secretary.

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I went, "No, I'm the new architect!"

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And they just looked ill.

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To add to everything,
it was the World Cup.

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England were at Wembley.

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You couldn't get in or out
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It was like World Cup fever,

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including with my dad,

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and all I was doing was
sitting in an office

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trying to draw
a bloody sports centre.

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I've actually found
two of my payslips.

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"JV Bull, 23rd of July."

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This is 1966,

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so I'm a temporary
architectural assistant,

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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, tax.

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"Net, £10.16."

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No wonder I made all my own clothes!

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The average weekly wage for
a woman in 1966 was £12,

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while men were earning £23.

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Despite this inequality,

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wages had been on the rise and much
of the '60s optimism came from

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having a bit more money
in our pockets.

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'66 was the peak of
British industry.

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Our factories were producing
more than they ever had before

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and they ever would again.

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In the Midlands,
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and working at
the Botterill boot factory.

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We were making all sports footwear,
really,

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and I can remember working on
running shoes, mainly,

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and football boots.

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Ordinarily, making football boots
wasn't anything to shout about,

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but the impending World Cup had
the factory buzzing with excitement.

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I think we lived in hope,
because you do, don't you?

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"Oh, wouldn't it be lovely
if they did win?"

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Especially, you know,
being in England, as well.

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But Sandi was about to
play a bigger role in the World Cup

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than anyone could have imagined.

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Somebody along the line said,

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"Oh, we're going to do
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"Better not mess them up."

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I went home and told my dad,
and he was over the moon

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because he was a sports fanatic.

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He said,
"That's really, really good."

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"Oh, is it?" He said, "Yes.
It's really good." You know?

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And I think he made
some kind of remark.

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"Well, if you're helping make them,
girl, they're bound to win."

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The boots were being made
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and once finished,

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they were shipped off ready for
the England team's first match.

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It was magical, I think.

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I was young and it was just really
nice to be part of something

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that was so important at that time
to our country.

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You know, because we'd had the
really dark days when I was a child,

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of just after the war,

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and then you've got this
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You were a lot more free than you
had been in the past, I think,

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and it was just nice to be able
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that was national.

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Young women were feeling these
new freedoms most keenly.

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Though many still married young,

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new opportunities
were starting to open up.

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Even outside of the big cities,
things were changing.

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In Cornwall, 20-year-old secretary
Gwyn Haslock had taken up

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the new sport of surfing.

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MUSIC: Good Vibrations
by The Beach Boys

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# Good, good, good
Good vibrations... #

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This is the first beach that I
surfed in a competition in 1966.

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I had to enter with the men
because there was

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no lady competitor,
so as far as I was concerned,

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we were just surfers.

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Well, in '66, it was really
the start of a whole way of life.

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Gwyn caught that revolutionary wave
and never looked back.

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She went on to become
our first female surf champion.

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Having an older brother
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he was a very good surfer,
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I wanted to do as well.

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# Ah... #

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50 years on,
Gwyn still surfs most days.

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# I don't know where
but she sends me there... #

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I just liked to get out on the water
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and I'm one of these people that if
the surf looks good, get in there,

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and it's just freedom, really,
from everywhere else.

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MUSIC: Groovy Kind Of Love
by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders

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# When I'm feeling blue
All I have to do... #

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Just outside London,

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Chris and Linda had been
dating almost every night

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for six whole weeks.

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We usually went to the cinema
locally, didn't we?

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Yes. But on Valentine's Day
we went into London to see

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The Sound Of Music, didn't we?
We did.

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We had a lovely evening
and we came home on the train

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and we went back to your house,
didn't we?

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And... I think you said...

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I was certainly getting ready
to propose, but...

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You said to me, "Will you..."

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And I said, "Marry you? Yes!"

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Linda got it out first.

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It was the 14th of February,
after all.

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That's right, and it was 1966.

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# When I taste your lips... #

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For all the talk of '66 swinging,

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most of Britain was still
pretty uptight about sex.

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If you didn't have a ring
on your finger,

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then you shouldn't be sharing a bed.

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# Baby, you and me
Got a groovy kind of love... #

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Michael Palin was 22 and heading to
London to find work.

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# A groovy kind of love... #

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At the start of 1966,
my girlfriend, who I'd met in 1959,

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she and I decided we wanted to
get married.

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It was just the only way we could
really live together at that time.

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Slight disapproval if you were,
you know, sort of

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unmarried and living together.

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So, the big thing at the beginning
of '66 was to get married

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and to find enough work
to pay for our life together.

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# Got a groovy kind of love... #

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Michael wasn't alone.

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96% of couples who got married
in 1966 hadn't lived together

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But attitudes were changing fast.

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The BBC even produced
this documentary

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about the thorny issue
of cohabitation.

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I think a lot of young people
who live together do it for kicks,

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do it to be smart and because
it's a kind of "in" thing to do.

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There'll probably be a great big
swing of the pendulum

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when the children of this generation

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will go back to being
frightfully Victorian.

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MUSIC: It's Not Unusual
by Tom Jones

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Well, that didn't turn out
to be true.

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Sex was here to stay.

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Everything was talked about

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in a way it hadn't been
about five or six years before.

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I remember buying my first condom
in London.

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You know, I was terrified,
and I went into the shop

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which just said "Durex"
in enormous letters.

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So I thought,
well, that must be OK, then.

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I didn't just want to
go into a chemist and...

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HE MUMBLES
"Condom, please."

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"Excuse me, this is a book shop."

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I mean, I managed to lose
my virginity at about...

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I think I was about 15.
It took a lot of doing.

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I had asked someone before
and they weren't very keen

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because I was so young,
and I was really curious.

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And that was it -
it was like, job done.

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Not everyone was so keen to
dispatch their virginity.

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In Skegness, Terri Channon was 21
and starting the holiday season

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as a Redcoat at Butlins.

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It was still a popular family
destination, but by 1966,

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the camps had acquired
a bit of a reputation.

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I'd got the contract
to go to Butlins,

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and Mum and Dad were...
not really happy about it.

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And one of my really good friends,
her mum said to my mum,

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"You shouldn't let her
go to Butlins.

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"It's only tarts and slappers
who go to Butlins

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"and she'll come back pregnant."

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My mum was mortified and it really,
really hurt her and upset her.

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So I think with that,
that was probably in my mind

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that I wasn't ever going to
let that happen.

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I was never going to
let my mum and dad down.

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My cousin had a baby out of wedlock
and that was absolutely frowned on.

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I always remember her walking down
the aisle with a rather large

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bouquet of flowers in front of an
off-white dress covering the bump.

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Dave Manvell was 17
and living at home in Sheffield.

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I know people that did get
their girlfriends pregnant.

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Some of them either kept
the child, or they were adopted.

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Having been in that position myself,

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I remember going home
and saying to my mum and dad,

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"I've got a girlfriend pregnant."

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My dad said to me,
"What are you going to do?"

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So I just said,
"Oh, I'm going to marry her."

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And we just carried on, that was it.

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The pill had become available
in 1961,

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so you might think that
everyone was over it by 1966,

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that the fear of pregnancy
had faded into the past,

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but the truth is rather different.

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By 1966, there were still fewer than
500,000 women actually on the pill.

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It was expensive,
hard to get hold of,

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and, for some, morally questionable.

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The doctor would turn round and ask
you, had you not got any morals?

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They would try to convince you
that you were morally wrong

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in wanting contraceptives.

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You couldn't go to
a doctor for advice.

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Yeah, I'm quite convinced
you wouldn't get it.

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GPs were instructed to
only prescribe the pill

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to married women -

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with the written permission of
their husbands, of course.

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Why couldn't I have sex
with whoever I wanted?

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Why should someone else decide?

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I still get angry about it.

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With no access to the pill
and still doing her A-levels,

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Janet discovered she was pregnant.

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Abortion was illegal, but backstreet
practitioners were commonplace.

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I realised I was pregnant and there
was no pill or anything, then,

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and someone told me about somewhere
I could go in Camden Town,

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or Kentish Town, and the woman
would do it for 25 quid.

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I waited until a weekend
when my parents had gone away

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and I phoned this woman up
and I went up there.

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I don't really want to
go into details,

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but it wasn't very pleasant.

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And...I came back to Perivale and I
lost a lot of blood, but I was fine,

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and then just went back to school
on Monday.

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Actually, I can't tell you
it affected me mentally.

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I just felt a huge sense of relief.

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I mean, obviously now you'd think,

348
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"Oh, God, you let a woman do stuff
to you with washing-up liquid,

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"or whatever it was."

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God knows what it was.

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But I had tried before
to take pills.

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You used to go to these chemists
around Leicester Square

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and ask for this, that
and the other, but they didn't work.

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An estimated 100,000 illegal
abortions were carried out

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every year during the '60s.

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A bill to legalise failed in 1966,

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but was finally passed
the following year.

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It didn't change the country
overnight, but gradually women

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began to have more control
over their bodies and their lives.

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Back in Barking, anticipation was
building for the big event.

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No, not that one.

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00:20:38,340 --> 00:20:40,140
Chris and Linda's wedding!

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We got married on June the 16th.

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On the 11th.

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June the 11th, yes. June the 11th.

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And then we went to
Stratford-upon-Avon

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for our honeymoon. Yes.

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We stayed in a hotel.

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But somebody had brought
a book with him.

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Had I? Yes.

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He always did things right,
and he still does,

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and he always did things
by the book,

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and we sat in bed with a book

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telling us exactly how to do it.

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I do not remember this!
Oh, yes, you did.

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You used to be able to go
into the chemist

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and there'd be a stand of books
on haemorrhoids and diabetes

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and having a baby,

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and one of them was on sex.

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# Yeah, yeah, yeah
Well, here it comes... #

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Sex manuals were a thriving market
in 1966, and a happy marriage

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promoted as the cornerstone of
respectable adult life.

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Over on the Wirral,

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19-year-old Pete Price realised
that his own feelings about sex

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were not being explained
in a pamphlet.

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When I started to feel
the way I felt,

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I didn't know what I was feeling.

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00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:02,820
You know, it wasn't talked about.
It was still a criminal activity.

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00:22:02,820 --> 00:22:04,580
It was illegal to be gay.

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00:22:07,060 --> 00:22:11,340
In 1966, being gay could feel
like a life sentence,

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00:22:11,340 --> 00:22:13,580
and that wasn't far off the truth.

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If caught or even suspected of
homosexuality,

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you faced a prison term.

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I lived a lie. I lived a lie.

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I went out with girls,

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00:22:28,620 --> 00:22:33,300
I dabbled with a couple of pals
who were experimenting with sex,

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but it was a lie.

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The whole thing was a lie
because I was frightened.

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When you got married,

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were you consciously aware
of the fact that you were

401
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marrying somebody with
homosexual tendencies? No.

402
00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:48,180
I was marrying somebody I loved,
and that was it.

403
00:22:48,180 --> 00:22:50,660
'This woman married a homosexual.

404
00:22:50,660 --> 00:22:53,420
'Twice during their marriage,
he was arrested for importuning.

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00:22:53,420 --> 00:22:55,900
'The second time he killed himself
rather than face

406
00:22:55,900 --> 00:22:59,860
'the punishment of a court
and the disgust of his friends.'

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00:23:01,220 --> 00:23:03,340
Still living at home with his mum,

408
00:23:03,340 --> 00:23:05,860
Pete had to be careful
to hide his secret.

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00:23:07,860 --> 00:23:11,260
I came home one Thursday night,
2am in the morning,

410
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and my mother was lying in bed,
and normally she wasn't awake,

411
00:23:15,180 --> 00:23:19,100
and she had a letter in her hand,
which had fallen out of my bureau,

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which was referring to other guys.

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00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:24,900
And my mother said, "What's this?"

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And she was white as a sheet,
and I was white as a sheet,

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00:23:28,060 --> 00:23:30,180
and I thought,
"It's got to be done,"

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00:23:30,180 --> 00:23:32,420
and I said, "I'm homosexual."

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00:23:32,420 --> 00:23:36,500
To which she was physically sick -
absolutely distraught.

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00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:38,980
She cried herself to sleep
for three years.

419
00:23:44,060 --> 00:23:47,820
There wasn't so much a gay scene
in Liverpool as a gay pub.

420
00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:54,340
The Magic Clock offered Pete a rare
opportunity to let his guard down -

421
00:23:54,340 --> 00:23:57,020
once he made it inside, that is.

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00:23:57,020 --> 00:23:59,180
So, this was the area
where it was all happening,

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and the Magic Clock was about here.

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00:24:01,980 --> 00:24:06,580
It was a small pub, but we had to
be careful when we went there,

425
00:24:06,580 --> 00:24:07,740
because of the theatre.

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00:24:07,740 --> 00:24:09,980
Because all the people
coming out of the theatre,

427
00:24:09,980 --> 00:24:11,860
if they saw you,
what were you doing?

428
00:24:11,860 --> 00:24:13,100
Going into a gay bar.

429
00:24:13,100 --> 00:24:15,860
You couldn't go to a gay bar,
and it was really weird.

430
00:24:15,860 --> 00:24:18,540
So we would wait outside
and then somebody would say,

431
00:24:18,540 --> 00:24:20,620
"Now! Come on in."

432
00:24:20,620 --> 00:24:25,140
Gay life was so well hidden in '66,
most people didn't know it existed.

433
00:24:26,460 --> 00:24:30,460
What was gay? No idea, because it
didn't become part of the game.

434
00:24:30,460 --> 00:24:32,900
You know, the biggest stars
in the world may have been gay

435
00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:35,580
but we didn't know,
and we didn't really care.

436
00:24:35,580 --> 00:24:38,220
Not the era I'm talking about -
not '66.

437
00:24:38,220 --> 00:24:40,580
Maybe in sophisticated London,

438
00:24:40,580 --> 00:24:43,140
maybe, but not in Sheffield.

439
00:24:45,060 --> 00:24:50,020
Like Liverpool, Sheffield was a city
of macho men and heavy industry.

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00:24:50,780 --> 00:24:52,340
Sheffield was a tough city.

441
00:24:52,340 --> 00:24:54,700
Steel and tough, tough people.

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00:24:54,700 --> 00:24:56,500
A peculiar mix of everything,

443
00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:58,740
because it was still
the old Sheffield -

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00:24:58,740 --> 00:25:01,380
the steelworks were still there.

445
00:25:01,380 --> 00:25:02,780
Yeah, you were factory fodder.

446
00:25:02,780 --> 00:25:04,900
When you failed your 11-plus,
that was it.

447
00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:06,260
Nobody wanted to know.

448
00:25:08,780 --> 00:25:12,140
The Beatles may have made
working-class accents cool,

449
00:25:12,140 --> 00:25:15,180
but the majority of work
available in Sheffield

450
00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:17,660
was still hard manual labour.

451
00:25:19,220 --> 00:25:22,820
Peter Stringfellow had found
his strengths lay elsewhere

452
00:25:22,820 --> 00:25:25,340
and got a job as
a door-to-door salesman

453
00:25:25,340 --> 00:25:28,500
touting carpets to housewives.

454
00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:31,540
I could talk. You know, too much.

455
00:25:31,540 --> 00:25:34,020
I could talk, which transferred into
being a salesman.

456
00:25:34,020 --> 00:25:35,540
I didn't know what a salesman was.

457
00:25:35,540 --> 00:25:38,340
I just would talk to people about
what I was trying to sell them

458
00:25:38,340 --> 00:25:40,580
and somehow it worked.

459
00:25:40,580 --> 00:25:45,540
But that also got me into trouble,
and I actually...

460
00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:49,740
transferred some stock from
the company I was working for

461
00:25:49,740 --> 00:25:53,100
into my car, which became mine,
and I mixed it up,

462
00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:54,540
their stock with my property.

463
00:25:54,540 --> 00:25:56,460
In other words,
I was stealing their carpets.

464
00:25:56,460 --> 00:25:58,500
And I starting selling those
for cash,

465
00:25:58,500 --> 00:26:00,540
knocking on doors and selling them.

466
00:26:00,540 --> 00:26:02,500
And I went,
"Wahey, this is a lot of money."

467
00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:05,380
Then someone reported
these carpets going missing

468
00:26:05,380 --> 00:26:08,620
and I went to court,
and the magistrate decided

469
00:26:08,620 --> 00:26:10,540
that I needed teaching a lesson.

470
00:26:10,540 --> 00:26:13,940
I was 20 years old, just married.

471
00:26:13,940 --> 00:26:18,220
My wife was about...was pregnant,
and he really sussed me,

472
00:26:18,220 --> 00:26:20,420
so he sent me to prison
for three months.

473
00:26:20,420 --> 00:26:23,460
I thought that was the end
of my life. That was me finished.

474
00:26:23,460 --> 00:26:26,060
You couldn't come out of prison
in those days and get a job.

475
00:26:26,060 --> 00:26:29,340
You were finished. There was no,
like, "Give this boy a chance."

476
00:26:29,340 --> 00:26:30,980
You know? No. They liked me.

477
00:26:30,980 --> 00:26:32,740
I had about three or four
interviews...

478
00:26:32,740 --> 00:26:36,020
They liked me, but no way
were they going to give me a job.

479
00:26:38,060 --> 00:26:41,300
Michael had left Sheffield
for Cambridge University

480
00:26:41,300 --> 00:26:42,780
a few years earlier,

481
00:26:42,780 --> 00:26:45,260
but was still very involved
with the fortunes of

482
00:26:45,260 --> 00:26:47,140
the local football teams.

483
00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:51,460
Sheffield Wednesday
were in the cup final.

484
00:26:51,460 --> 00:26:54,740
This meant more to me than
the World Cup in any shape or form.

485
00:26:54,740 --> 00:26:59,700
We were coasting home and suddenly,
Everton we were playing,

486
00:27:00,180 --> 00:27:01,980
scored two late goals.

487
00:27:01,980 --> 00:27:04,660
It was an absolute disaster.
I felt absolutely mortified.

488
00:27:04,660 --> 00:27:07,700
I'm a Sheffield United supporter
and this was Sheffield Wednesday,

489
00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:09,500
but it was because
I was from Sheffield.

490
00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:14,140
I wanted - so much wanted -
them to win in the World Cup year.

491
00:27:17,340 --> 00:27:19,940
The FA Cup had whet our appetites.

492
00:27:21,540 --> 00:27:24,540
Television sets
were flying off the shelves

493
00:27:24,540 --> 00:27:27,740
as we got ready for
the World Cup.

494
00:27:27,740 --> 00:27:31,100
For the first time,
the matches would be broadcast live,

495
00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:35,580
and by the summer,
nine in every ten homes owned a TV.

496
00:27:38,060 --> 00:27:41,260
The growing popularity of
television provided Michael

497
00:27:41,260 --> 00:27:43,540
with his very first job,

498
00:27:43,540 --> 00:27:48,420
presenting a new youth show,
appropriately called "Now!".

499
00:27:48,420 --> 00:27:52,020
The ordinary pop show, Ready
Steady Go! and Top Of The Pops

500
00:27:52,020 --> 00:27:56,100
had sort of led the way
but there was something more now.

501
00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:59,180
So I was there, really,
to do little comedy links

502
00:27:59,180 --> 00:28:02,300
and I happened to be able to do
a Harold Wilson accent.

503
00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:05,500
AS HAROLD WILSON:
"Hello, good evening.
This is your Prime Minister here."

504
00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:08,060
And the rest of it was doing
all sorts of strange things.

505
00:28:08,060 --> 00:28:10,900
I remember acting with a wonderful
actor called Arthur Mullard

506
00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:13,700
who did a piece where
I'm playing "dum-dum-dum-dum"

507
00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:17,380
and ended up smashing the piano
in the middle of a field.

508
00:28:17,380 --> 00:28:20,060
So whatever the guys wrote,

509
00:28:20,060 --> 00:28:22,700
I would have to do these little
sort of links.

510
00:28:26,020 --> 00:28:28,940
Anarchic television
was proving popular,

511
00:28:28,940 --> 00:28:32,660
and it wasn't long before a new
opportunity came along for Michael.

512
00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:36,180
Quite out of the blue,
the BBC rang up and said,

513
00:28:36,180 --> 00:28:38,380
"We've got this new series
called The Frost Report.

514
00:28:38,380 --> 00:28:40,740
"It's going to have a theme to it
each week.

515
00:28:40,740 --> 00:28:42,460
"David Frost is going to present it.

516
00:28:42,460 --> 00:28:44,180
"There are going to be sketches.

517
00:28:44,180 --> 00:28:45,820
"We've got a cast of
ten new performers -

518
00:28:45,820 --> 00:28:47,340
"Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett,

519
00:28:47,340 --> 00:28:49,700
"and a man called John Cleese
you might have heard of."

520
00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:51,900
I said, "Oh, yes,
I've heard of him from Cambridge."

521
00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:54,020
LAUGHTER
Does it hurt you if I do this?

522
00:28:54,020 --> 00:28:56,060
LAUGHTER

523
00:28:56,060 --> 00:28:57,260
Of course it does!

524
00:28:57,260 --> 00:28:58,540
Oh, you see, it hurts.

525
00:28:58,540 --> 00:29:02,180
"And we would like you to
submit material."

526
00:29:05,620 --> 00:29:08,780
A new kind of comedy was being born.

527
00:29:08,780 --> 00:29:12,860
The Frost Report brought together
all of the British Monty Pythons

528
00:29:12,860 --> 00:29:14,420
for the very first time.

529
00:29:16,180 --> 00:29:19,540
The first thing we sold to them -
the Two Ronnies did it -

530
00:29:19,540 --> 00:29:21,380
was just a police man coming in
and saying...

531
00:29:21,380 --> 00:29:23,020
Good morning, Super.

532
00:29:23,020 --> 00:29:25,460
Morning, Wonderful.
LAUGHTER

533
00:29:25,460 --> 00:29:27,780
'It was a very silly thing.'

534
00:29:27,780 --> 00:29:29,700
The embers were burning.

535
00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:33,860
Television was changing
as quickly as we were.

536
00:29:35,340 --> 00:29:40,340
In 1966, the BBC even announced
the move to colour broadcasting,

537
00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:42,380
but this radical innovation

538
00:29:42,380 --> 00:29:46,060
didn't apply to the colour of
the people appearing on it.

539
00:29:47,460 --> 00:29:50,260
It was completely dominated
by white people,

540
00:29:50,260 --> 00:29:52,460
and when they saw a black face
on the television

541
00:29:52,460 --> 00:29:54,140
they used to call everybody and say,

542
00:29:54,140 --> 00:29:56,660
"Come, come! There's a black person
on the television!"

543
00:29:56,660 --> 00:29:59,980
Well, "a coloured person
on the television".

544
00:29:59,980 --> 00:30:03,940
Nina Baden-Semper became
a huge star in the '70s,

545
00:30:03,940 --> 00:30:08,140
appearing in the frankly quite
racist sitcom Love Thy Neighbour.

546
00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:09,580
Perhaps we ought to go next door

547
00:30:09,580 --> 00:30:11,540
and introduce ourselves to our new
neighbours.

548
00:30:11,540 --> 00:30:13,220
Come on. Let's get settled in first.

549
00:30:13,220 --> 00:30:15,220
I can't help feeling
that we are going to come as

550
00:30:15,220 --> 00:30:17,140
a surprise to them. If you ask me,

551
00:30:17,140 --> 00:30:19,860
I'd say it'll be more of a shock.
LAUGHTER

552
00:30:19,860 --> 00:30:21,620
But back in 1966,

553
00:30:21,620 --> 00:30:24,780
she had arrived from Trinidad
and was struggling to find work.

554
00:30:26,860 --> 00:30:31,460
There weren't many parts
written for women, for a start -

555
00:30:31,460 --> 00:30:34,300
therefore, they weren't many parts
written for black women,

556
00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:35,500
so it was...

557
00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:39,180
You had to take whatever there was
in those days, you know?

558
00:30:39,180 --> 00:30:41,660
You didn't have a choice, really.

559
00:30:41,660 --> 00:30:46,020
There weren't very many black people
around so it was difficult for them

560
00:30:46,020 --> 00:30:49,180
to identify with us, you know?

561
00:30:49,180 --> 00:30:53,620
Because they treated us with
suspicion because of the colour.

562
00:30:53,620 --> 00:30:55,700
They didn't know - it was ignorance.

563
00:30:57,980 --> 00:31:02,100
In 1966, a new sitcom appeared on
our screens that captured

564
00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:06,500
that ignorance perfectly -
Till Death Us Do Part.

565
00:31:09,140 --> 00:31:12,140
I mean, the ones I'm talking about,
they're your proper blacks,

566
00:31:12,140 --> 00:31:15,860
ain't they? The ones that was born
in the jungle, your natives.

567
00:31:15,860 --> 00:31:17,740
I mean, don't tell me
they're educated.

568
00:31:17,740 --> 00:31:21,620
Half of them are still
eating each other.

569
00:31:21,620 --> 00:31:25,260
Poor devils. You talk such ruddy
nonsense, the pair of you.

570
00:31:25,260 --> 00:31:27,860
Oi, oi, oi! That's enough of that!
What?

571
00:31:27,860 --> 00:31:30,220
All that swearing. I won't have it.
LAUGHTER

572
00:31:30,220 --> 00:31:32,580
What's the matter with
these nails, then?

573
00:31:32,580 --> 00:31:37,060
The programme quickly became
the most-watched show on television.

574
00:31:37,060 --> 00:31:41,220
The irascible Alf Garnett
and his bigoted, racist tirades

575
00:31:41,220 --> 00:31:45,820
drew an incredible
16 million viewers an episode.

576
00:31:45,820 --> 00:31:49,580
Though Till Death Us Do Part
was intended as satire,

577
00:31:49,580 --> 00:31:54,340
it certainly reflected
some very real attitudes of 1966.

578
00:31:55,980 --> 00:31:58,300
I've got a lovely story from
my sister, actually,

579
00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:03,180
who is a nurse and the surgeon said
to her, "Oh, Miss Baden-Semper,

580
00:32:03,180 --> 00:32:06,020
"how come you speak
such good English?"

581
00:32:06,020 --> 00:32:09,700
And she said, "Well, an Englishman
lived in the tree next to mine."

582
00:32:11,460 --> 00:32:14,700
How did you find that, Geno?
The black-white thing in those days?

583
00:32:14,700 --> 00:32:16,300
How did you hack it?

584
00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:17,500
Well, I just...

585
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:20,780
Went with the flow. ..like most GIs,
stayed away from the whites.

586
00:32:20,780 --> 00:32:23,580
Yeah. Cos, you know,
it's just trouble.

587
00:32:23,580 --> 00:32:25,940
It's going to cause trouble
and all of that,

588
00:32:25,940 --> 00:32:28,860
and you go somewhere
where blacks hang out. Hmm.

589
00:32:30,100 --> 00:32:34,700
As a matter of fact, in England,
you have a country, a variety,

590
00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:36,380
the changes of the seasons,

591
00:32:36,380 --> 00:32:39,220
and it has entered
into the people themselves,

592
00:32:39,220 --> 00:32:43,700
yet the Englishman -
or the white man, for that matter -

593
00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:48,220
doesn't want the variety of
the human species.

594
00:32:48,220 --> 00:32:50,180
He likes to see white only.

595
00:32:53,140 --> 00:32:56,500
The impending World Cup only
added to the international feel

596
00:32:56,500 --> 00:32:58,660
of Britain in 1966.

597
00:32:58,660 --> 00:33:00,580
Alongside the footballers,

598
00:33:00,580 --> 00:33:03,700
thousands of migrants were arriving
to make a new life here.

599
00:33:06,660 --> 00:33:10,500
The Asian population of the UK
had quadrupled in the five years

600
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:12,340
leading up to '66.

601
00:33:13,780 --> 00:33:17,940
Yasmin Sheikh was 21 and had arrived
in Leicester from East Africa

602
00:33:17,940 --> 00:33:21,020
to live with her sister and brother.

603
00:33:21,020 --> 00:33:24,020
The city now has an abundance
of Asian shops,

604
00:33:24,020 --> 00:33:28,220
but back then you were lucky
to find a bulb of garlic.

605
00:33:28,220 --> 00:33:29,980
This is tamarind.

606
00:33:29,980 --> 00:33:33,300
Bittersweet -
you make chutney out of this.

607
00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:35,300
Lovely stuff.

608
00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:38,540
Ladies' fingers - okra.

609
00:33:38,540 --> 00:33:41,060
Not gentlemen's fingers,
not men's fingers.

610
00:33:41,060 --> 00:33:43,780
Thank God somewhere
the women got the preference!

611
00:33:45,260 --> 00:33:49,020
Yasmin and Parveen had been teachers
in East Africa and found work at

612
00:33:49,020 --> 00:33:52,780
a local school, changing quickly
with the influx of new faces.

613
00:33:55,220 --> 00:33:58,980
I used to volunteer
to sit with the kids,

614
00:33:58,980 --> 00:34:00,700
only to eat the dessert,

615
00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:04,980
because I loved the English, you
know, puddings and all those things.

616
00:34:04,980 --> 00:34:08,820
Spotted Dick?
Spotted Dick with custard.

617
00:34:08,820 --> 00:34:13,300
Everyone was talking against school
meals but we loved them, didn't we?

618
00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:15,540
Yes, yes.
Because it was a change for us.

619
00:34:18,980 --> 00:34:23,420
The first school I taught
was Medway Junior School

620
00:34:23,420 --> 00:34:26,460
and that is myself on
this side here.

621
00:34:26,460 --> 00:34:29,020
And you can see the diversity
at that time

622
00:34:29,020 --> 00:34:32,380
because of the influx of
the immigrants.

623
00:34:35,780 --> 00:34:39,220
Many of the new arrivals
didn't speak any English at all,

624
00:34:39,220 --> 00:34:42,460
so for a while,
daily life was mystifying.

625
00:34:44,620 --> 00:34:46,780
One of our friends was a doctor,

626
00:34:46,780 --> 00:34:51,780
and he was having problems because
the health visitors were not allowed

627
00:34:51,780 --> 00:34:56,580
in the homes of the women
who had just delivered a baby

628
00:34:56,580 --> 00:34:59,620
because they were suspicious,
"Why this woman is coming?"

629
00:34:59,620 --> 00:35:02,420
They had no idea that
that's part of the system here.

630
00:35:02,420 --> 00:35:07,500
So he then remembered that these two
sisters can speak the language,

631
00:35:07,740 --> 00:35:10,580
and we suggested that
because we can't expect these women,

632
00:35:10,580 --> 00:35:12,940
who had never been to school
in their life,

633
00:35:12,940 --> 00:35:14,780
to learn English straight away,

634
00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:17,700
but we thought if the health
visitors can pick up

635
00:35:17,700 --> 00:35:21,020
a few greeting words
and build a bridge,

636
00:35:21,020 --> 00:35:25,500
so I had to teach Urdu in 1966
to the health visitors.

637
00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:26,620
Like...

638
00:35:26,620 --> 00:35:29,700
SHE SPEAKS URDU

639
00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:31,580
You know, very friendly words.

640
00:35:31,580 --> 00:35:36,260
And they went to these homes
and they would come and greet them

641
00:35:36,260 --> 00:35:39,340
and the women were, "Oh, Urdu!

642
00:35:39,340 --> 00:35:41,780
"That you can speak Urdu.
Oh, come, come, come."

643
00:35:41,780 --> 00:35:43,460
And they would let them come in.

644
00:35:43,460 --> 00:35:46,300
And then the problem was
they wouldn't let them go,

645
00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:48,300
because that's the Asian culture,
you know,

646
00:35:48,300 --> 00:35:50,420
until they've fed them so much.

647
00:35:55,220 --> 00:35:59,300
It wasn't only new arrivals
who had stigma to overcome.

648
00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:03,940
In Sheffield, Peter had served
his time and needed to earn money.

649
00:36:03,940 --> 00:36:07,860
The booming youth scene
provided the perfect opportunity.

650
00:36:07,860 --> 00:36:11,740
Alongside his brother Geoff,
he decided to open a music venue.

651
00:36:14,020 --> 00:36:15,180
That was another club,

652
00:36:15,180 --> 00:36:18,820
I had great times
and he helped me when he could -

653
00:36:18,820 --> 00:36:21,220
Pete Stringfellow,

654
00:36:21,220 --> 00:36:22,900
the Mojo Club.

655
00:36:24,700 --> 00:36:27,980
'65 and '66,
I was having an absolute ball.

656
00:36:27,980 --> 00:36:31,900
I was having a great time
in my King Mojo Club.

657
00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:33,220
I'd got an ear for music.

658
00:36:33,220 --> 00:36:35,740
I heard something, I liked it,
I booked them.

659
00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:40,940
In '66, Dave and Paul were working
for the electricity board

660
00:36:40,940 --> 00:36:43,180
and the department store C&A,

661
00:36:43,180 --> 00:36:46,860
but they were at the club
every night it was open.

662
00:36:46,860 --> 00:36:50,700
Paul even got a job painting
psychedelic murals on the wall.

663
00:36:50,700 --> 00:36:54,180
'66, it was a whole world for me.

664
00:36:54,180 --> 00:36:56,500
Tuesdays, Thursdays was records.

665
00:36:56,500 --> 00:37:00,020
Friday, Saturday, Sunday could be
live music, a live band.

666
00:37:00,020 --> 00:37:01,980
We got all the top London heights

667
00:37:01,980 --> 00:37:04,300
that we would never have seen
in Sheffield.

668
00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:07,340
So we got everybody -
Rod Stewart, Elton John...

669
00:37:07,340 --> 00:37:11,260
The Kinks, Pink Floyd,
and on and on it goes.

670
00:37:11,260 --> 00:37:12,620
The Who were so loud,

671
00:37:12,620 --> 00:37:15,460
I think you could have heard them
in Peterborough.

672
00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:20,860
What do you reckon was one of your
favourite nights in the Mojo?

673
00:37:20,860 --> 00:37:24,420
The one that I remember
is the Small Faces.

674
00:37:24,420 --> 00:37:26,820
And I'll tell you another one,
Ben E King. You know why?

675
00:37:26,820 --> 00:37:29,820
Because he invited me to sing.
You sang. You sang.

676
00:37:29,820 --> 00:37:31,740
I sang with him, yeah.

677
00:37:31,740 --> 00:37:34,820
I sang with Ben E King,
and I can't sing.

678
00:37:34,820 --> 00:37:38,180
It gives you a little idea
how big that stage was. Remember?

679
00:37:38,180 --> 00:37:42,100
Well, I couldn't figure out
how Little Stevie Wonder

680
00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:44,020
and his orchestra...
And his orchestra.

681
00:37:44,020 --> 00:37:47,380
..and Ike and Tina Turner
and their big band.

682
00:37:47,380 --> 00:37:50,180
And the Ikettes.
Yeah, how they all fit on.

683
00:37:50,180 --> 00:37:52,380
MUSIC: My Generation
by The Who

684
00:37:52,380 --> 00:37:55,380
When the groups weren't playing,
you had to fill in time.

685
00:37:55,380 --> 00:37:58,100
I had a piccalilli sandwich
eating competition.

686
00:37:58,100 --> 00:37:59,820
I'd have dancing competitions.

687
00:37:59,820 --> 00:38:02,620
Anything to keep them focused,
because if you didn't,

688
00:38:02,620 --> 00:38:04,100
a fight would start.

689
00:38:04,100 --> 00:38:06,180
A fight would start,
bang, wallop, crash,

690
00:38:06,180 --> 00:38:08,700
and it would only stop
when the group came on.

691
00:38:13,980 --> 00:38:17,540
The King Mojo didn't look like
any club you'd see today -

692
00:38:17,540 --> 00:38:20,300
a suburban house
on a residential street -

693
00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:23,740
but it became the beating heart of
the music scene in Sheffield,

694
00:38:23,740 --> 00:38:26,780
and Peter was the king.

695
00:38:26,780 --> 00:38:30,420
We'd invented all-nighters,
which came from London -

696
00:38:30,420 --> 00:38:32,780
a club called the Flamingo
which had all-nighters

697
00:38:32,780 --> 00:38:34,220
with all the blues boys.

698
00:38:34,220 --> 00:38:36,860
And we were booking some of the
biggest soul names in the world

699
00:38:36,860 --> 00:38:39,980
for 4am in the morning, cos there
was nowhere else would book them.

700
00:38:39,980 --> 00:38:42,180
Of course,
for the few years it was there,

701
00:38:42,180 --> 00:38:43,980
the neighbours were going mad.

702
00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:48,420
They thought they was
the almighties.

703
00:38:48,420 --> 00:38:50,380
That's how the Stringfellows worked.

704
00:38:50,380 --> 00:38:53,140
They just wanted to push
everyone around.

705
00:38:53,140 --> 00:38:57,500
They didn't think about the children
or the old people or anyone else,

706
00:38:57,500 --> 00:38:59,700
or the residents.

707
00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:04,220
The police soon had Peter
in their sights, again.

708
00:39:04,220 --> 00:39:07,860
He was back in court,
this time to try and save his club.

709
00:39:08,940 --> 00:39:12,180
Everyone outside gets an idea that
it's nothing but a dirty cellar,

710
00:39:12,180 --> 00:39:15,140
when, in fact, it's just
a wonderland for young people.

711
00:39:15,140 --> 00:39:17,020
They've got to come inside
to assess this.

712
00:39:17,020 --> 00:39:18,820
Even the magistrates never came in.

713
00:39:18,820 --> 00:39:21,420
Nobody is interested,
that's what it really was.

714
00:39:21,420 --> 00:39:23,580
They just want to get rid of
the Mojo, and that's it.

715
00:39:23,580 --> 00:39:27,060
The story goes that
the guy was breeding budgies

716
00:39:27,060 --> 00:39:30,340
next door to the yard
as you come into the Mojo Club,

717
00:39:30,340 --> 00:39:32,380
and when we went to court
and I was asking for

718
00:39:32,380 --> 00:39:34,260
a licence and they were opposing,

719
00:39:34,260 --> 00:39:36,180
and he went up in front
of the magistrates

720
00:39:36,180 --> 00:39:37,540
and he actually said, this guy,

721
00:39:37,540 --> 00:39:40,540
"Look, I've been breeding budgies
all my life.

722
00:39:40,540 --> 00:39:42,660
"Since that Mojo
has had the all-nighters,

723
00:39:42,660 --> 00:39:46,180
"all those eggs have cracked
and we've never had a new budgie."

724
00:39:46,180 --> 00:39:50,300
And the magistrate went,
"Oh, that's terrible. That's awful."

725
00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:53,340
And they turned the licence down.

726
00:39:53,340 --> 00:39:54,980
I blame the budgies.

727
00:39:57,260 --> 00:39:59,860
The authorities may have been
clamping down,

728
00:39:59,860 --> 00:40:02,540
but the genie was out of the bottle.

729
00:40:02,540 --> 00:40:05,420
The morals and attitudes
of the older generation

730
00:40:05,420 --> 00:40:08,300
were fast becoming
a thing of the past.

731
00:40:11,140 --> 00:40:15,860
After six months of marriage,
my husband became allergic to...

732
00:40:15,860 --> 00:40:20,500
To latex... Which is...
..so I could no longer use condoms.

733
00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:24,260
We had to start using the pill,
and my mum said,

734
00:40:24,260 --> 00:40:27,300
"It's no good going to see
your doctor here,

735
00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:30,420
"because she's Catholic
and she won't prescribe the pill."

736
00:40:30,420 --> 00:40:32,460
So you went to your doctor,
didn't you?

737
00:40:32,460 --> 00:40:36,540
And he said, "Tell Linda to come to
me and I'll prescribe it to her,"

738
00:40:36,540 --> 00:40:40,300
because I wasn't on his list,
and so I didn't get pregnant.

739
00:40:47,580 --> 00:40:52,340
Chris and Linda weren't the only
ones looking for medical advice.

740
00:40:52,340 --> 00:40:56,340
In Liverpool, Pete and his mum had
booked an appointment with her GP.

741
00:40:57,660 --> 00:41:00,900
We went to the doctor because it was
seen as a medical problem.

742
00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:04,420
The doctor informed my mother
that I could be cured of

743
00:41:04,420 --> 00:41:06,780
being a homosexual.

744
00:41:06,780 --> 00:41:11,780
There was a treatment, if I went to
a mental institute in Chester.

745
00:41:12,140 --> 00:41:15,900
They put me into this place
with a false name,

746
00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:19,620
which I had to have, a false name,
because I was a criminal.

747
00:41:19,620 --> 00:41:24,620
And then the big day came
when I had to have my treatment

748
00:41:25,020 --> 00:41:30,060
and what they did was they recorded
me talking about sex for an hour

749
00:41:31,140 --> 00:41:33,340
on a Grundy TK20,

750
00:41:33,340 --> 00:41:36,460
the old tape recorders,
I'll always remember that.

751
00:41:36,460 --> 00:41:39,140
And they would ask me
everything about sex,

752
00:41:39,140 --> 00:41:42,180
but using the graphic description.

753
00:41:42,180 --> 00:41:45,900
They then put me in a room
with no windows with a male nurse

754
00:41:45,900 --> 00:41:50,300
and I was in a bed and I had
magazines, dirty magazines.

755
00:41:50,300 --> 00:41:52,340
And then they asked me what I drank,

756
00:41:52,340 --> 00:41:56,460
and I drank Guinness in those days,
so there was cases of Guinness.

757
00:41:56,460 --> 00:42:01,500
So, I listen to the tape, drink
the Guinness and look at the books,

758
00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:03,740
and halfway through the hour,
they injected me,

759
00:42:03,740 --> 00:42:08,660
which made me vomit
and also made me go to the toilet.

760
00:42:08,660 --> 00:42:13,660
I sat in my own excrement and my own
vomit, and that lasted an hour,

761
00:42:15,740 --> 00:42:20,780
and then they did it again and again
and again and for 72 hours.

762
00:42:22,820 --> 00:42:25,340
There wasn't much left of me
at the end of it.

763
00:42:25,340 --> 00:42:28,340
I wasn't being cured of being gay.

764
00:42:28,340 --> 00:42:30,980
All I was
was lying there thinking,

765
00:42:30,980 --> 00:42:33,420
"I am never going to be
seen again alive

766
00:42:33,420 --> 00:42:36,460
"because nobody knows I'm in here
cos I'm under a false name.

767
00:42:36,460 --> 00:42:39,060
"I'll never, ever get out of here."

768
00:42:39,060 --> 00:42:41,180
And I was really, really frightened.

769
00:42:41,180 --> 00:42:44,420
That's all I was thinking of,
so I said, "I want out."

770
00:42:44,420 --> 00:42:46,980
And from that day onwards,
I said, "Enough is enough.

771
00:42:46,980 --> 00:42:49,420
"I've got to try and accept
who and what I am."

772
00:42:49,420 --> 00:42:51,460
MUSIC: I Feel Good
by James Brown

773
00:42:51,460 --> 00:42:55,260
# Whoa
I feel good... #

774
00:42:55,260 --> 00:42:58,300
Mod, rocker, moon maiden or dandy,

775
00:42:58,300 --> 00:43:02,100
your clothes told the world
who you were in 1966.

776
00:43:02,100 --> 00:43:06,900
Fashion had exploded into a sea of
colour and combustible nylon.

777
00:43:08,180 --> 00:43:11,740
I can't believe I walked down
the street in Liverpool

778
00:43:11,740 --> 00:43:16,660
in a pair of blue leather hot pants
with Mickey Mouse braces

779
00:43:16,660 --> 00:43:18,420
and a leather cloak,

780
00:43:18,420 --> 00:43:20,300
and I didn't think I was gay.

781
00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:21,980
I thought I was
getting away with it.

782
00:43:21,980 --> 00:43:25,900
I really shake my head in disbelief
at what I got away with.

783
00:43:25,900 --> 00:43:28,300
# So nice, so nice
I got you... #

784
00:43:28,300 --> 00:43:31,980
Pete wasn't the only one
stretching his sartorial wings.

785
00:43:31,980 --> 00:43:35,460
Let's be honest, we were
all dressing like lunatics.

786
00:43:35,460 --> 00:43:37,580
Well, apart from Chris, maybe.

787
00:43:37,580 --> 00:43:39,180
You had a knitted tie.

788
00:43:39,180 --> 00:43:41,140
I had a knitted tie, yes.

789
00:43:41,140 --> 00:43:43,100
I can still see the knitted tie.

790
00:43:43,100 --> 00:43:47,740
It was the same width all the way
down with a square end. Bottom.

791
00:43:47,740 --> 00:43:52,580
Well, I was probably just on
the transition from corduroy...

792
00:43:52,580 --> 00:43:53,820
to jeans, you know?

793
00:43:53,820 --> 00:43:56,100
I looked fantastic in 1966.

794
00:43:56,100 --> 00:43:57,900
I used to wear
all the modern clothes

795
00:43:57,900 --> 00:44:00,860
and my favourite shop was Biba.

796
00:44:00,860 --> 00:44:05,660
Well, here's a little Biba dress,
very nice, very simple.

797
00:44:05,660 --> 00:44:09,460
It so revolutionised the whole
thing - a very clever lady.

798
00:44:09,460 --> 00:44:11,740
I loved Biba.

799
00:44:11,740 --> 00:44:15,340
They always produced nice swimsuits,
I think, in the '60s.

800
00:44:15,340 --> 00:44:17,780
They were quite fashionable,
weren't they?

801
00:44:17,780 --> 00:44:21,180
And the bathing hats,
they were very flowery.

802
00:44:21,180 --> 00:44:24,100
Lots of hair, lots of eyelashes -

803
00:44:24,100 --> 00:44:26,740
the traditional, iconic Twiggy look.

804
00:44:28,740 --> 00:44:32,420
Very short skirts,
but my legs were better then.

805
00:44:34,420 --> 00:44:38,940
They had bikinis, but not me because
I've always been quite buxom,

806
00:44:38,940 --> 00:44:42,540
as I would say,
and if I dived under a wave,

807
00:44:42,540 --> 00:44:44,820
the bikini wouldn't be there
at the top any more,

808
00:44:44,820 --> 00:44:48,460
so I never liked bikinis.

809
00:44:48,460 --> 00:44:50,020
It would be off!

810
00:44:51,460 --> 00:44:54,900
Here's another one,
with a short skirt.

811
00:44:54,900 --> 00:44:57,620
and we always had to
wear boots with it

812
00:44:57,620 --> 00:45:00,500
because it was the fashion
in those days.

813
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:02,460
We just thought
we could do anything.

814
00:45:02,460 --> 00:45:04,660
We were so cocky,
it was unbelievable,

815
00:45:04,660 --> 00:45:05,860
and I just thought,

816
00:45:05,860 --> 00:45:08,300
"Well, I might have funny teeth
and glasses,

817
00:45:08,300 --> 00:45:10,380
"but, you know, I look great."

818
00:45:10,380 --> 00:45:13,660
But we did look
and dress outlandish.

819
00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:17,660
And if you really wanted
to look unique, well,

820
00:45:17,660 --> 00:45:19,420
you had to break out
the needle and thread.

821
00:45:21,780 --> 00:45:22,980
From the age of 14,

822
00:45:22,980 --> 00:45:25,820
I'd always made
loads of my own clothes,

823
00:45:25,820 --> 00:45:29,700
and I didn't want to
look like anybody else.

824
00:45:29,700 --> 00:45:31,980
I made myself
a silver leather coat,

825
00:45:31,980 --> 00:45:33,700
and it just looked fabulous.

826
00:45:36,580 --> 00:45:39,340
Janet's silver jacket
was soon to land her a part

827
00:45:39,340 --> 00:45:41,620
in a legendary film of '66.

828
00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:44,740
Set in swinging London,

829
00:45:44,740 --> 00:45:48,180
Blow-Up follows a young mod
photographer in a world of fashion,

830
00:45:48,180 --> 00:45:50,300
pop music and easy sex.

831
00:45:51,900 --> 00:45:55,420
The Italian film director Antonioni
was looking for extras

832
00:45:55,420 --> 00:45:57,940
at Janet's university.

833
00:45:57,940 --> 00:46:00,820
He needed to shoot in a nightclub,

834
00:46:00,820 --> 00:46:05,700
and he was using Jeff Beck and the
Yardbirds to play in the nightclub,

835
00:46:05,700 --> 00:46:07,780
so he needed
a lot of London trendies.

836
00:46:09,060 --> 00:46:11,220
Antonioni picked me out,

837
00:46:11,220 --> 00:46:14,420
and I got to dance with
this black guy,

838
00:46:14,420 --> 00:46:17,460
and we got extra money, and I
remember the others got the hump

839
00:46:17,460 --> 00:46:19,220
cos I got action.

840
00:46:19,220 --> 00:46:23,580
The others had to stand around,
and I was, like, dancing.

841
00:46:25,740 --> 00:46:30,180
'66 may have been swinging for
London singles, but in Leicester,

842
00:46:30,180 --> 00:46:33,580
Yasmin realised that her sister's
arranged marriage was in trouble.

843
00:46:35,420 --> 00:46:38,980
'When I came here, it was like
a grey cloud everywhere,

844
00:46:38,980 --> 00:46:40,540
'and I thought,'

845
00:46:40,540 --> 00:46:42,780
"What's happened to her?", you know?
I mean...

846
00:46:42,780 --> 00:46:44,420
this is not normal.

847
00:46:44,420 --> 00:46:45,700
It was great to have her.

848
00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:47,140
If she wasn't there...

849
00:46:50,740 --> 00:46:52,140
..we wouldn't be here today.

850
00:46:52,140 --> 00:46:53,660
SHE CHUCKLES

851
00:46:53,660 --> 00:46:57,580
Yasmin arrived to discover that
her Indian brother-in-law

852
00:46:57,580 --> 00:47:00,900
was living with another woman,
and had been for years.

853
00:47:01,940 --> 00:47:05,940
My husband wasn't with me,
he was with an English woman.

854
00:47:05,940 --> 00:47:07,700
I didn't know.
When I came, I found out.

855
00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:09,420
He never stayed with me.

856
00:47:09,420 --> 00:47:11,740
And in fact, I went to see him.

857
00:47:11,740 --> 00:47:13,860
She saw him, she said,

858
00:47:13,860 --> 00:47:15,860
"He's not good for you.

859
00:47:15,860 --> 00:47:17,700
"Just forget him and leave him."

860
00:47:19,300 --> 00:47:24,140
In 1966, Parveen did something
unheard of in the Asian community -

861
00:47:24,140 --> 00:47:26,300
she filed for a divorce.

862
00:47:26,300 --> 00:47:28,740
Muslim women, it was unheard.

863
00:47:28,740 --> 00:47:31,620
But what my ex-husband thought -

864
00:47:31,620 --> 00:47:35,340
"She will not do anything,
so I'll have English and Asian."

865
00:47:35,340 --> 00:47:38,420
That's what he had in mind,
but I said, "No way."

866
00:47:38,420 --> 00:47:41,460
I'd rather be alone
than as a second wife.

867
00:47:41,460 --> 00:47:43,580
And I took the...

868
00:47:43,580 --> 00:47:46,700
very difficult decision, but I did.

869
00:47:47,980 --> 00:47:50,260
I think we set the precedent
after that, didn't we?

870
00:47:50,260 --> 00:47:51,620
SHE LAUGHS

871
00:47:51,620 --> 00:47:55,540
A lot of Muslim girls started coming
out of the deadlock, you know.

872
00:47:55,540 --> 00:47:58,780
They realised that you can do it,
you know?

873
00:47:58,780 --> 00:48:02,980
You can't just suffer, while the man
is having another woman on the side.

874
00:48:06,580 --> 00:48:08,940
It wasn't just women
who were asserting their rights.

875
00:48:09,980 --> 00:48:12,860
In Belfast, sectarian prejudice
meant that Catholics

876
00:48:12,860 --> 00:48:15,380
were being treated
as second-class citizens.

877
00:48:16,540 --> 00:48:19,900
Jobs were being advertised
"Protestant only,"

878
00:48:19,900 --> 00:48:23,340
and many Catholic families
were living in slum conditions.

879
00:48:26,780 --> 00:48:28,660
But young Catholics
in Northern Ireland

880
00:48:28,660 --> 00:48:30,620
were growing in confidence, too.

881
00:48:33,020 --> 00:48:37,020
Queens University student Eamonn
McCann picked up a loud-hailer

882
00:48:37,020 --> 00:48:39,620
and started campaigning for change.

883
00:48:40,620 --> 00:48:43,220
'I was perhaps naive and romantic'

884
00:48:43,220 --> 00:48:46,700
to believe that we were
about to transcend,

885
00:48:46,700 --> 00:48:49,780
to sweep over
the old sectarian divides

886
00:48:49,780 --> 00:48:53,900
because we were young, cool,
international people.

887
00:48:53,900 --> 00:48:57,300
Sadly, it wasn't to be, but it was
a very attractive idea at the time.

888
00:48:57,300 --> 00:48:58,700
For me, anyway.

889
00:49:00,140 --> 00:49:03,380
Inspired by the civil rights
demonstrations in America,

890
00:49:03,380 --> 00:49:07,460
the students saw that peaceful
protests could have a huge impact.

891
00:49:10,700 --> 00:49:14,980
There was a tendency always
within the Catholic community

892
00:49:14,980 --> 00:49:18,060
to see ourselves as the equivalent
of black people

893
00:49:18,060 --> 00:49:19,300
in the United States.

894
00:49:21,500 --> 00:49:24,380
Martin Luther King's speech
would have been listened to and read

895
00:49:24,380 --> 00:49:26,540
and celebrated as much, I think,

896
00:49:26,540 --> 00:49:28,540
by young people in Northern Ireland

897
00:49:28,540 --> 00:49:31,940
as by anybody outside
the Afro-American people themselves.

898
00:49:36,540 --> 00:49:39,580
The emerging civil rights movement
offered many people hope

899
00:49:39,580 --> 00:49:41,500
that change was on the way.

900
00:49:43,060 --> 00:49:46,900
A huge housing estate was even
being built on the Falls Road,

901
00:49:46,900 --> 00:49:49,740
to provide better housing
for the Catholics there.

902
00:49:50,980 --> 00:49:53,980
Tommy Fisher was eight years old
and living nearby

903
00:49:53,980 --> 00:49:56,220
when he saw the Divis flats
going up.

904
00:49:58,020 --> 00:50:00,740
People were sold on the idea.
It was going to be wonderful.

905
00:50:00,740 --> 00:50:02,660
They were going to have
central heating,

906
00:50:02,660 --> 00:50:04,180
they were going to have baths.

907
00:50:04,180 --> 00:50:05,420
A bath!

908
00:50:05,420 --> 00:50:08,220
You know, I don't remember anyone
having a bathroom.

909
00:50:08,220 --> 00:50:10,660
You had a tin bath
that was put in front of the fire.

910
00:50:10,660 --> 00:50:12,660
Tough luck if you were the last one!

911
00:50:12,660 --> 00:50:13,740
HE CHUCKLES

912
00:50:16,340 --> 00:50:21,300
In 1966, the threat of violence in
Northern Ireland felt very far away.

913
00:50:27,620 --> 00:50:29,900
The peace didn't last long.

914
00:50:32,220 --> 00:50:33,820
In the May of '66,

915
00:50:33,820 --> 00:50:37,460
a loyalist paramilitary group
called the UVF re-formed

916
00:50:37,460 --> 00:50:40,540
amid rumours of a resurgence
of IRA activity.

917
00:50:42,940 --> 00:50:46,420
By June, they had killed
two Catholic civilians -

918
00:50:46,420 --> 00:50:48,700
John Scullion and Peter Ward.

919
00:50:51,060 --> 00:50:52,100
For Eamonn McCann,

920
00:50:52,100 --> 00:50:56,780
the killings seemed like the
last gasp of the old sectarian ways.

921
00:50:58,540 --> 00:51:00,780
But others saw what was to come.

922
00:51:02,540 --> 00:51:05,220
My aunt Cissie said to me when
we were marching for civil rights -

923
00:51:05,220 --> 00:51:06,900
very, very early days - she said,

924
00:51:06,900 --> 00:51:10,540
"Son, if you keep this up,
we'll be burned out of our house."

925
00:51:10,540 --> 00:51:11,740
HE GASPS

926
00:51:11,740 --> 00:51:14,660
"Eh?" She says,
"We'll be burned out of our house

927
00:51:14,660 --> 00:51:18,460
"if you people keep up this marching
in the streets and causing trouble."

928
00:51:18,460 --> 00:51:19,580
"Yeah, right."

929
00:51:19,580 --> 00:51:20,740
She was right.

930
00:51:20,740 --> 00:51:23,980
She WAS burned out of her house
just a couple of years later.

931
00:51:27,740 --> 00:51:32,420
The Divis flats became
an iconic image, not of progress,

932
00:51:32,420 --> 00:51:34,300
but of the Troubles
in Northern Ireland.

933
00:51:37,180 --> 00:51:42,020
Those shots fired in '66
would echo for another 30 years.

934
00:51:47,380 --> 00:51:50,340
America was influencing Britain
in other ways, too.

935
00:51:51,860 --> 00:51:55,580
In London, Geno was finding
that his new career as a soul singer

936
00:51:55,580 --> 00:51:57,260
was perfectly timed.

937
00:51:58,580 --> 00:52:02,540
Black American artists were now
leading a charge on the charts.

938
00:52:04,180 --> 00:52:06,340
Geno Washington
and the Ram Jam Band.

939
00:52:08,860 --> 00:52:13,620
Geno and his Ram Jam Band had become
the hottest live act in town.

940
00:52:13,620 --> 00:52:16,300
# You don't know like I know

941
00:52:16,300 --> 00:52:19,540
# What that woman has done for me

942
00:52:19,540 --> 00:52:21,180
# Cos in the morning... #

943
00:52:21,180 --> 00:52:25,980
Geno became the biggest act ever
to draw a crowd at the Mojo Club.

944
00:52:25,980 --> 00:52:29,020
We could play him once a month,
no problem.

945
00:52:29,020 --> 00:52:33,340
It cannot be denied -
we was the best house-rocker.

946
00:52:33,340 --> 00:52:38,620
Geno!
HE CLAPS RHYTHMICALLY

947
00:52:38,620 --> 00:52:42,140
Geno's reputation
as an electrifying live performer

948
00:52:42,140 --> 00:52:44,780
meant that the Ram Jam Band
were playing high up

949
00:52:44,780 --> 00:52:47,060
on the festival bills that summer.

950
00:52:47,060 --> 00:52:50,460
I just got me some new clothes
out of Carnaby Cavern.

951
00:52:50,460 --> 00:52:52,220
Off Carnaby Street, here.

952
00:52:52,220 --> 00:52:56,700
I'm going to the festival. I'm
looking sharp, I'm feeling sharp.

953
00:52:56,700 --> 00:53:00,620
And we get there -
the crowd dragged me out of the van

954
00:53:00,620 --> 00:53:03,180
and put me on their shoulders,
right?

955
00:53:03,180 --> 00:53:08,180
Now, my trousers are all split, my
butt is hanging out and everything.

956
00:53:08,740 --> 00:53:09,940
You know what I mean?

957
00:53:09,940 --> 00:53:14,300
They're carrying me through
the audience, about 100 yards there,

958
00:53:14,300 --> 00:53:19,300
and you got the Small Faces,
they are playing, right?

959
00:53:19,540 --> 00:53:22,660
Steve Marriott's doing his thing
and everything,

960
00:53:22,660 --> 00:53:26,140
and so when they put me up
on the stage, he says,

961
00:53:26,140 --> 00:53:29,340
"All right, you want the nigger,
you can have him!"

962
00:53:29,340 --> 00:53:31,900
HE LAUGHS

963
00:53:31,900 --> 00:53:35,500
It didn't bother me,
you know what I mean?

964
00:53:35,500 --> 00:53:37,580
I was worried more
about my trousers!

965
00:53:37,580 --> 00:53:38,980
HE LAUGHS

966
00:53:38,980 --> 00:53:40,260
# Come on, baby

967
00:53:40,260 --> 00:53:41,820
# Come on, baby. #

968
00:53:45,700 --> 00:53:46,780
CHEERING

969
00:53:46,780 --> 00:53:47,940
Yeah!

970
00:53:47,940 --> 00:53:49,180
Geno Washington.

971
00:53:53,860 --> 00:53:57,140
Do you know why the flags are flying
in Birmingham here today? Yes.

972
00:53:57,140 --> 00:53:58,340
Why is it?

973
00:53:58,340 --> 00:53:59,740
Oh, the World Cup.

974
00:53:59,740 --> 00:54:01,820
You remember the excitement
building, cos,

975
00:54:01,820 --> 00:54:04,180
"Oh, we've got through that,
we've got through that."

976
00:54:04,180 --> 00:54:08,100
And sort of all of a sudden,
we're in the final, aren't we?

977
00:54:08,100 --> 00:54:10,580
And you think, "Oh, wow.

978
00:54:10,580 --> 00:54:12,860
"Oh, we've got to stand a chance."

979
00:54:12,860 --> 00:54:15,780
Who do you think's going to win?
England, I hope.

980
00:54:15,780 --> 00:54:18,580
Wer den Cup gewinnt?

981
00:54:18,580 --> 00:54:20,540
The German!

982
00:54:20,540 --> 00:54:23,820
World Cup fever
had broken into a sweat.

983
00:54:23,820 --> 00:54:27,980
England had got into the final, and
the whole world was waiting to see

984
00:54:27,980 --> 00:54:32,980
whether Alf's boys could beat
their arch-enemy, West Germany.

985
00:54:33,500 --> 00:54:36,540
I got out of going out to a wedding
to watch the World Cup final.

986
00:54:36,540 --> 00:54:40,580
Everybody was sort of full of
World Cup football fever.

987
00:54:40,580 --> 00:54:43,420
I wasn't even remotely interested
in the World Cup.

988
00:54:45,700 --> 00:54:48,860
In the Midlands,
Sandi counted down the days,

989
00:54:48,860 --> 00:54:51,180
waiting for the team
to walk onto the pitch

990
00:54:51,180 --> 00:54:55,220
wearing the Puma boots
she had helped to make.

991
00:54:55,220 --> 00:54:58,620
But the beautiful game
was about to turn ugly.

992
00:54:58,620 --> 00:55:02,620
Rival brand Adidas had offered
the England players £1,000

993
00:55:02,620 --> 00:55:06,180
to wear their boots instead.

994
00:55:06,180 --> 00:55:08,660
Jack Charlton was so annoyed
at the dealings

995
00:55:08,660 --> 00:55:11,460
that he threatened to wear
one Puma boot and one Adidas.

996
00:55:12,620 --> 00:55:15,940
The day of the World Cup final
arrived.

997
00:55:15,940 --> 00:55:20,900
32 million Brits gathered around
television sets to watch the game.

998
00:55:21,020 --> 00:55:25,620
For the eagle-eyed, it looked like
a clean sweep for Adidas,

999
00:55:25,620 --> 00:55:26,900
but not quite.

1000
00:55:26,900 --> 00:55:30,940
One key player
was wearing Puma boots.

1001
00:55:30,940 --> 00:55:35,220
I think the only person
that actually wore those boots

1002
00:55:35,220 --> 00:55:37,700
was Gordon Banks,
which was the goalkeeper.

1003
00:55:37,700 --> 00:55:40,020
I know he definitely had Puma boots,

1004
00:55:40,020 --> 00:55:42,140
cos I was quite a fan
of Gordon Banks.

1005
00:55:42,140 --> 00:55:43,260
SHE CHUCKLES

1006
00:55:43,260 --> 00:55:45,540
I thought he was quite cute,
the goalkeeper.

1007
00:55:49,860 --> 00:55:54,100
Even if you weren't rooting for
England, for those 120 minutes,

1008
00:55:54,100 --> 00:55:56,980
the eyes of the world
were on Britain,

1009
00:55:56,980 --> 00:56:01,580
in a year when more than just a
football match hung in the balance.

1010
00:56:01,580 --> 00:56:03,500
It's the equaliser!

1011
00:56:03,500 --> 00:56:06,740
The first time I went to London,
I got to Euston Station,

1012
00:56:06,740 --> 00:56:10,460
I took my coat off,
put it on my shoulders,

1013
00:56:10,460 --> 00:56:14,540
got my cigarette holder out,
and I minced down the platform,

1014
00:56:14,540 --> 00:56:16,260
and I was home.

1015
00:56:16,260 --> 00:56:19,620
We were taking control
of our destiny.

1016
00:56:19,620 --> 00:56:20,660
It's in!

1017
00:56:22,980 --> 00:56:26,820
I went home, and my mother
was shoving washing in the machine,

1018
00:56:26,820 --> 00:56:29,740
and I just looked at her and went,
"Well, that's it, I'm off."

1019
00:56:29,740 --> 00:56:32,860
I just got a bag of stuff
and walked out,

1020
00:56:32,860 --> 00:56:35,020
and I never went back home
after that.

1021
00:56:35,020 --> 00:56:39,380
'66 put us on the path
to the lives we live today.

1022
00:56:45,780 --> 00:56:46,940
A live album.

1023
00:56:46,940 --> 00:56:48,700
Cool. It sold.

1024
00:56:48,700 --> 00:56:50,500
"It sold?! Did it?

1025
00:56:50,500 --> 00:56:53,180
"What, it sold?!"
HE LAUGHS

1026
00:56:53,180 --> 00:56:58,180
It kept bouncing from number two
to five for 42 weeks.

1027
00:56:59,980 --> 00:57:04,540
We were making choices
that would shape our entire lives.

1028
00:57:04,540 --> 00:57:08,420
Geoff Hurst saw an opening in the
defence and achieved the hat-trick!

1029
00:57:10,700 --> 00:57:12,940
For Terri and her boyfriend Dave,

1030
00:57:12,940 --> 00:57:15,980
that day would stay with them
forever.

1031
00:57:15,980 --> 00:57:20,060
'Dave walked me back to my
little tiny poky chalet,'

1032
00:57:20,060 --> 00:57:22,820
and he proposed to me that night,

1033
00:57:22,820 --> 00:57:26,420
and I think it was because we were
just on a bit of a high, really.

1034
00:57:26,420 --> 00:57:29,260
That was my sort of recollection
of the World Cup,

1035
00:57:29,260 --> 00:57:30,940
was me getting engaged, really.

1036
00:57:30,940 --> 00:57:33,820
That was far more important to me
than the World Cup.

1037
00:57:33,820 --> 00:57:35,300
It was lovely.

1038
00:57:42,420 --> 00:57:43,460
You know what?

1039
00:57:43,460 --> 00:57:45,060
SHE LAUGHS

1040
00:57:45,060 --> 00:57:47,260
They may have thought
it was all over...

1041
00:57:47,260 --> 00:57:48,660
THEY LAUGH

1042
00:57:48,660 --> 00:57:50,060
But actually...

1043
00:57:50,060 --> 00:57:51,220
Oh, yeah...

1044
00:57:51,220 --> 00:57:52,940
..it had only just begun.

1045
00:57:54,140 --> 00:57:56,620
1966 changed our lives completely.

1046
00:57:56,620 --> 00:58:00,340
We're where we are today
because of 1966, aren't we?

1047
00:58:01,260 --> 00:58:02,860
And you won the World Cup.

1048
00:58:02,860 --> 00:58:04,540
And West Ham won the World Cup.

1049
00:58:04,540 --> 00:58:06,740
# ..thunder

1050
00:58:06,740 --> 00:58:09,100
# Lightning

1051
00:58:09,100 --> 00:58:13,140
# The way you love me is frightening

1052
00:58:13,140 --> 00:58:15,420
# I'd better knock

1053
00:58:15,420 --> 00:58:17,820
# On wood

1054
00:58:17,820 --> 00:58:19,540
# Baby

1055
00:58:23,620 --> 00:58:26,460
# I'm not superstitious

1056
00:58:26,460 --> 00:58:29,340
# About you

1057
00:58:29,340 --> 00:58:32,500
# But I can't take no chance... #