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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 69344 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 4:49:26. |
| Performer |
Tim Pigott-Smith, narrator ; Joanna Bourke, commentary. |
| Summary |
Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the twentieth century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith. Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of the century described by those who saw them happen. A wealth of BBC archive recordings, some never previously broadcast, is interwoven with an illuminating commentary by the historian Joanna Bourke. Published in ten volumes, Eyewitness examines the role and the life of the British people in each decade of the century. The Seventies began with a spectacular obscenity trial and ended with Margaret Thatcher quoting St. Francis of Assisi on the steps of Downing Street. In the years between, the Sixties' social revolution settled into a variety of movements: feminist, gay, anarchist, punk. However, economic misery, burgeoning union power and carnage in Northern Ireland characterise the decade. |
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History, Modern -- 20th century. -- Sound recordings.
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Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Bourke, Joanna.
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Pigott-Smith, Tim.
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BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
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| Added Title |
Eyewitness, 1970-1979 |
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1970's |
| ISBN |
1405699329 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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