0:00:00 > 0:00:04Wo-hoh-hoh! I'm Len Goodman. For the next 45 minutes,
0:00:04 > 0:00:07I'm the rocker in the rocker!
0:00:07 > 0:00:11Taking you for a spin through that amazing decade
0:00:11 > 0:00:17which kicked off 60 years ago in 1952.
0:00:17 > 0:00:22When the new queen ushered in a new era - the fifties!
0:00:22 > 0:00:24I love it!
0:00:41 > 0:00:45The '50s! Oh, yes, it's that 1952 show
0:00:45 > 0:00:50with your '50s stories and your walk down Memory Lane.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53We hear from teddy boys and girls
0:00:53 > 0:00:56on what it was like to rock the night away
0:00:56 > 0:00:59in their blue suede shoes.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Then what about those classic '50s gadgets,
0:01:03 > 0:01:06the household appliances. Do you remember your first?
0:01:06 > 0:01:10Don't get saucy - I'm talking fridges, here!
0:01:10 > 0:01:16Then there were the first TV stars, all new and spangly,
0:01:16 > 0:01:20The Beverley Sisters, woo-hoo, I loved all three of them!
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Come on, girls!
0:01:22 > 0:01:27We've got - Woo-hoo - Marty Wilde!
0:01:27 > 0:01:29My hero!
0:01:29 > 0:01:31# The stars up above
0:01:31 > 0:01:36# Why must I be a teenager in love? #
0:01:36 > 0:01:38A great time to be young.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Now, swing it out, sisters,
0:01:40 > 0:01:44it's time for The 1952 Show!
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Now, teenagers, love 'em or hate 'em,
0:01:51 > 0:01:54the teenager was really born in the '50s.
0:01:54 > 0:02:01The New Musical Express published Britain's first singles chart in 1952.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Britain's first teenagers, the teddy boys and girls,
0:02:05 > 0:02:09swaggered into the '50s, ready to take on the world!
0:02:09 > 0:02:11- #- Whop-bop a lu ma bala-bam-bam
0:02:11 > 0:02:13- #- Tutti frutti, oh, Rudy
0:02:13 > 0:02:16- #- Tutti frutti, oh, Rudy... #
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Having experienced the austerity of war,
0:02:19 > 0:02:21the generation coming of age in the early '50s
0:02:21 > 0:02:25craved excitement and wanted to be different from their parents.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Chris Fender-Black remembers what it was like.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31We were rebelling against the Victorian era.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35The meals, and you can't leave the table. Sit here
0:02:35 > 0:02:39until everybody's finished and don't talk unless you're spoken to.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Tip the hats to all the old girls. It's endless!
0:02:43 > 0:02:45- #- You know I can be fair
0:02:45 > 0:02:47- #- Sitting home all alone
0:02:48 > 0:02:51- #- If you can't come around... #
0:02:51 > 0:02:55With their distinctive look, teddy boys were the epitome of teenage rebellion.
0:02:55 > 0:03:01Their flamboyant outfits scandalised the "make do and mend" generation their parents belonged to.
0:03:01 > 0:03:06'Mike's a teddy boy. Teddy boys aren't popular with the public.'
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Teddy boys, I don't like them at all.
0:03:09 > 0:03:14I don't like their style of dress. It's just to prove what they are. They're ignorant.
0:03:14 > 0:03:20Chris waited until his mother was out to use her sewing machine to make his trousers into drainpipes.
0:03:20 > 0:03:25She used to come back home. Look at these! Look! "What have you done to your trousers?
0:03:25 > 0:03:29"How dare you? You've ruined a lovely pair of trousers!"
0:03:29 > 0:03:33She'd get hold of it and unpick it and put them back to normal!
0:03:33 > 0:03:39When she went out again, I did it again and cut it off with scissors so she couldn't unpick it!
0:03:39 > 0:03:42So I won in the end. It was a battle. Everything, a battle!
0:03:42 > 0:03:45# I'm going crazy all alone with a crazy girl
0:03:47 > 0:03:51# I love you, baby, but you know you're such a crazy girl... #
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Nice girls didn't go out with teddy boys.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Because they had a violent reputation.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01If you were a teddy girl, you were considered common.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03But I still wanted to be one!
0:04:04 > 0:04:08# Why do I love you when I know you're such a crazy girl
0:04:10 > 0:04:14# I ought to leave you cos you've always got me in a whirl... #
0:04:14 > 0:04:16The fashion was nice. It was sexy.
0:04:16 > 0:04:22Pencil skirts, and then all the petticoats under the flared skirts.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25With poodles on them, things like that.
0:04:25 > 0:04:31Girls who weren't teddy girls were squares. They didn't wear nice clothes at all.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35They were just squares. They'd wear like twin sets.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38A twin set was a sweater and a cardigan together.
0:04:38 > 0:04:43So if any of us had twin sets, we'd get the cardigan
0:04:43 > 0:04:46and we'd do the buttons up and wear it back-to-front!
0:04:46 > 0:04:50So you had the buttons down the back. It looked different.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54# You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
0:04:54 > 0:04:56# Just cryin' all the time... #
0:04:56 > 0:05:00The young people of the very early '50s
0:05:00 > 0:05:04were the first generation in Britain to lay claim to being "teen-agers".
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Before then, you were either a child or an adult.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10There wasn't anything in-between.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14What changed all that was a heady cocktail of increasing prosperity,
0:05:14 > 0:05:17a new mood of optimism in the country.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19And music.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22- #- Yeah, you ain't never caught a rabbit...- #
0:05:22 > 0:05:27American rock'n'roll would become the soundtrack to 1950s teenagers' lives.
0:05:27 > 0:05:32Bill Haley, Rock Around The Clock, and See You Later, Alligator,
0:05:32 > 0:05:38and my most favourite one was Elvis doing Don't Be Cruel.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40And the other side, Hound Dog.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Everything good came from America.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46All the dress, all the fridges, everything,
0:05:46 > 0:05:50and the films - everyone went to the pictures Friday night.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Everybody smoking, peanuts in the aisles,
0:05:52 > 0:05:58and the stocking top of the ice cream lady as she walked down the aisle!
0:05:58 > 0:06:02It was her suspenders, her stocking tops rubbing. Oh, that was fun.
0:06:02 > 0:06:10In 1954, a new American film, Blackboard Jungle, struck a chord with teenagers everywhere.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13As the cinema lights dimmed,
0:06:13 > 0:06:17they were in for the biggest surprise of their lives.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20It blacked out and we thought the camera had gone wrong.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24It kept breaking down in those days. You'd get blackouts.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27But it was the start of the film. It started in a blackout.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31All of a sudden, it went, "One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock!"
0:06:31 > 0:06:36Wow! Tell you what, that was the biggest wow of my life, that was!
0:06:36 > 0:06:39- #- We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
0:06:39 > 0:06:41- #- Get your glad rags on...- #
0:06:41 > 0:06:46The Bill Haley rock'n'roll classic instantly electrified British teenagers.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50- #- ..We're gonna rock, rock, rock till the broad daylight
0:06:50 > 0:06:53- #- We're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight...- #
0:06:53 > 0:06:56It was like being hit on the head with a baseball bat!
0:06:56 > 0:06:59"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" And we did, didn't we?
0:06:59 > 0:07:05All the teenagers in London have been jiving and rioting and ripping up the seats.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09So we wanted to be like them, definitely.
0:07:09 > 0:07:14We weren't going to do no rioting because everybody knew us cos it was a local village.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16We just got up and started jiving.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19And the manager stopped the film, walked down the aisle
0:07:19 > 0:07:23and threw us all out and banned us for life!
0:07:23 > 0:07:27So we weren't allowed to go to that cinema any more!
0:07:33 > 0:07:37Teenagers rocked local dance halls up and down the country,
0:07:37 > 0:07:41trying out their latest moves to impress the opposite sex.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49I said, "Would you like to dance?"
0:07:49 > 0:07:52She said, "Yes, please!" I thought, "Ooh, my lucky day!"
0:07:52 > 0:07:54She stood up, she was only that high.
0:07:54 > 0:07:59Right? She was tiny. I thought to myself, "I'm up here."
0:07:59 > 0:08:03And as we started going round, my buttons on my suit got caught in her hair!
0:08:03 > 0:08:06We were in the middle of the dance floor.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09I couldn't get her hair out of the buttons on my jacket!
0:08:09 > 0:08:11It was the most embarrassing moment!
0:08:11 > 0:08:17We had to go to the... Walk back off with her hair hanging on! I'll never forget that one.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Faye took her dancing pretty seriously in the 1950s.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30I decided that I wanted to be a teddy girl that jived
0:08:30 > 0:08:32and I wanted to be the best jiver there was.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36So I went home, put a mirror on the floor and practised the steps.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40Then the next time I went to the youth club, a guy came up to me and said,
0:08:40 > 0:08:44"Come on, we'll jive." And he started jiving
0:08:44 > 0:08:47and he started doing some rock'n'roll movements.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50We'd go dancing five nights a week.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53Dancing was my life. I've always loved dancing.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58She's still pretty light on her feet.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02And Chris certainly hasn't lost his enthusiasm
0:09:02 > 0:09:05for the music and fashion of the 1950s.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Keep rock'n'rolling! Yeah!
0:09:11 > 0:09:13And look who's here! Chris Fender-Black.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Look at you! You look fantastic!
0:09:16 > 0:09:19All the gear on. Fabulous!
0:09:19 > 0:09:22- What's happened to your quiff? - My quiff's long gone.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24So's mine!
0:09:24 > 0:09:27- Marty's all right. - Marty's still hanging on there.
0:09:27 > 0:09:32Do you wear that out and about, or is it just for high days and holidays?
0:09:32 > 0:09:36- High days and holidays now. I used to wear it out.- Of course.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39- Those days are long gone now. - The colour was brilliant.- Yes.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Marty, were you interested in this?
0:09:41 > 0:09:46Yes, I used to go to Burton's and have it all designed,
0:09:46 > 0:09:51exactly the way I wanted it. Long drapes, trousers as tight as possible.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55Ludicrous! The trousers were so tight I could hardly move!
0:09:55 > 0:09:58I know the feeling!
0:09:58 > 0:10:02What about your mum and dad. Mine wouldn't let me wear anything like that.
0:10:02 > 0:10:09- What about you?- The old man said - my father - he was an ex-army sergeant.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11He was very strict in some ways.
0:10:11 > 0:10:16He said, "If you dress up in those clothes, and you have that duck tail haircut" -
0:10:16 > 0:10:20I used to have a little crop at the front and a DA at the back.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23He said, "You're not coming on holiday with us."
0:10:23 > 0:10:28Every year we'd gone to Ramsgate and Margate for all that time, since I was this high.
0:10:28 > 0:10:33I thought, "No, he'll take me." And he didn't!
0:10:33 > 0:10:39They got on the train and left, and I was home on my own for a week, which was really strange.
0:10:39 > 0:10:44One of the things about the '50s that I thought was great was the music.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48- Oh, yes.- No question. - Chris, who were your favourites?
0:10:48 > 0:10:51- Bill Haley started it.- Yeah. - Then Gene Vincent.- Yeah.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55- And then onto Elvis.- Fabulous. - Absolutely brilliant.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59And don't forget we had the wind-up gramophones with 78 records on.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01- With big needles.- That's right.
0:11:01 > 0:11:06So when you went to the pictures, you couldn't believe the sound.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10Wow! It used to really knock you back. Great times.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Marty, I've got a few photographs of you back in the day.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17I'm loving this one. I love the wallpaper!
0:11:17 > 0:11:19I love the whole look of the thing.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23- Oh, my goodness me.- He hasn't changed a bit, you know.
0:11:23 > 0:11:28- I've not changed!- Lovely jumper. Did you get that for Christmas?
0:11:28 > 0:11:32You can see where it's been ironed down the side. Mum ironed it.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Great, that is!
0:11:34 > 0:11:38There's a sort of a Presley look about this one, I think.
0:11:38 > 0:11:44- Yeah, maybe. He was the main man as far as I was concerned. - He was the king.- Yes.- No question.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47And here you are in action. Full on!
0:11:47 > 0:11:52That was at Philips Records, Stanhope Place in London.
0:11:52 > 0:11:53Recording there.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56- Probably.- Fantastic.- Yeah.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59- Haven't changed a bit, you know! - You've hardly changed.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Amazing!
0:12:02 > 0:12:06I've got to say, Marty, you certainly were a stylish teenager.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10- You were a piece of work! - You think so, Len?- Yes, I do!
0:12:11 > 0:12:14So, from growing up to gadgets.
0:12:14 > 0:12:19I remember my nan sweeping the stairs on her hands and knees.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23And keeping the milk on the window sill in case it went off and it always did!
0:12:23 > 0:12:27But for her indoors, all that started to change in the '50s.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31New labour-saving devices were coming into the market.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Buying on the never-never was all the rage
0:12:34 > 0:12:39and it seemed the whole country was ga-ga for gadgets!
0:12:42 > 0:12:45- #- Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
0:12:45 > 0:12:48- #- Who put the ram in the rama rama ding dong...- #
0:12:48 > 0:12:52The start of the '50s marked the birth of the British consumer.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56We fell in love with household gadgets, appliances and every sort of consumer item.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59We couldn't get enough of them.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03- #- ..He made my baby fall in love with me...- #
0:13:04 > 0:13:09I remember our first vacuum cleaner. It was very small and it was fun
0:13:09 > 0:13:15because I used to sit on it and ride it while Mother did the vacuuming.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18And as we strived to keep up with the Joneses,
0:13:18 > 0:13:22the Joneses sometimes couldn't keep up with the technology.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26The first washing machine that we had, it wouldn't go on.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29When he came, he said, "Well, you have to plug it in, love!"
0:13:29 > 0:13:31"Oh," I said, "do you? Oh, sorry!"
0:13:31 > 0:13:34I never plugged it in!
0:13:35 > 0:13:38But the boom in labour-saving devices
0:13:38 > 0:13:41which promised to make the housewife's life easier
0:13:41 > 0:13:43kept growing and growing.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49- NEWSREEL:- Contemporary is the word of the moment
0:13:49 > 0:13:52and it goes for all the labour-saving devices on show, too.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Margaret Cadman, a young newly-wed from Bristol,
0:13:55 > 0:13:58fell in love with her new vacuum cleaner.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00It made a big difference to my life
0:14:00 > 0:14:06having previously had to sweep the floor with a brush and pick up the dust with a dustpan and brush.
0:14:06 > 0:14:11Margaret was one of the thousands who flocked to the new consumer shows
0:14:11 > 0:14:14like the Ideal Home Exhibition in London's Olympia.
0:14:14 > 0:14:20A friend and I went to the Ideal Home Exhibition every year during the '50s.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22It was a really exciting day out.
0:14:22 > 0:14:27We'd get the bus into Temple Meads, then the train up to London.
0:14:27 > 0:14:33We really enjoyed our day out, looking at all the new things on display.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37And they even had the royal seal of approval.
0:14:37 > 0:14:43But there was one gadget that universally generated huge excitement -
0:14:43 > 0:14:44the Kenwood food mixer.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48'If you want tomatoes pulped up into what's called tomato puree,
0:14:48 > 0:14:51'this machine will solve your problem.'
0:14:51 > 0:14:56Ken Wood, the man behind the machine, was like many of the inventors of the '50s.'
0:14:56 > 0:15:03Ex-RAF, he applied his war-time expertise to arming the housewife at home.
0:15:03 > 0:15:10He was like the perfect buccaneering entrepreneur. Sell snow to the Eskimos!
0:15:10 > 0:15:14Kenneth Grange joined the revolutionary Kenwood design team
0:15:14 > 0:15:17and got to know his boss well - and his sales technique.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21He'd go to Land's End to repair a fuse for some poor old girl
0:15:21 > 0:15:25whose machine seemed to have stopped. He wouldn't charge her.
0:15:25 > 0:15:31Out of that his products and he himself became virtual mythology.
0:15:31 > 0:15:36You couldn't want for a better companion than a Kenwood.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39- #- Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
0:15:39 > 0:15:42- #- Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?- #
0:15:42 > 0:15:47The woman of the house would make all the decisions with regard to what we now call design.
0:15:47 > 0:15:53The choice of the furniture, the lino, the wall coverings,
0:15:53 > 0:15:56knives and forks. You cannot think of any single thing
0:15:56 > 0:15:58that was the man's province.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01'Breakfast can be fried on the breakfast table, if you like.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04'It's all made easy - in fact, ideal.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07The demonstrations were very important.
0:16:07 > 0:16:12They were all shown to you. It was a communal activity, too.
0:16:12 > 0:16:18The salesman and the consumer were all part and parcel of this exuberance.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21- #- Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- #- Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?- #
0:16:24 > 0:16:28Down in there you've got the essential, the heart of the machine,
0:16:28 > 0:16:33this planetary action with a balloon whisk or a kneader.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37Kenneth was given the task of redesigning the classic Kenwood mixer
0:16:37 > 0:16:41which was relaunched as the A700 Chef.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44This machine virtually made new foodstuffs
0:16:44 > 0:16:46because it was so powerful
0:16:46 > 0:16:50and would grind up or pulp up or mash or shred or whatever
0:16:50 > 0:16:52almost anything in sight!
0:16:52 > 0:16:57We had them in the office and you could mix concrete in the damn thing!
0:16:57 > 0:17:00- #- Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
0:17:00 > 0:17:02- #- Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?- #
0:17:02 > 0:17:07High employment, new prosperity and the freedom to pay in easy stages
0:17:07 > 0:17:11when the Government waived restrictions on hire purchase in 1954
0:17:11 > 0:17:13meant we'd never had it so good.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17'Had that expectation of ownership
0:17:17 > 0:17:19'not been sewn and had not become commonplace,
0:17:19 > 0:17:23'I reckon the '50s wouldn't have been nearly as rich
0:17:23 > 0:17:28'in the products that came forward had people had to find the money and put it down.'
0:17:28 > 0:17:32But that was the introduction of making things available.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35There. In goes the butter and sugar.
0:17:35 > 0:17:41Ken Wood's kitchen creation would soon make him one of Britain's youngest millionaires
0:17:41 > 0:17:43thanks to housewives like Brenda Hamer's aunt
0:17:43 > 0:17:46who'd had one of the first.
0:17:46 > 0:17:51It was very unusual for someone to have a Kenwood in those days.
0:17:51 > 0:17:56It was very special. I used to go off to her house and cook with it.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Make cakes.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02In a way it sort of became like an icon
0:18:02 > 0:18:05for future prosperity in the home.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07This one thing.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10The rest of the home might be a bit tatty
0:18:10 > 0:18:16but if you'd got this thing in the home, you were well on the way to being a successful family.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Brenda inherited her mixer from her aunt
0:18:19 > 0:18:21and it's still going strong today.
0:18:21 > 0:18:26It was a real asset in the kitchen
0:18:26 > 0:18:29because at home we'd just use the normal wooden spoon.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32So a machine was a great labour-saving device.
0:18:32 > 0:18:38So 60 years on, this gadget also has its own diamond jubilee.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Happy birthday, Kenwood mixer!
0:18:40 > 0:18:43- #- Who put the bop In the bop shoo bop shoo bop
0:18:43 > 0:18:46- #- Who put the dip In the dip da dip da dip?- #
0:18:46 > 0:18:49What a marvellous film that was.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51It's amazing to think that back then
0:18:51 > 0:18:56there were so few things that housewives could use.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00Do you remember your first gadget that came into your house?
0:19:00 > 0:19:04The first gadget that really meant anything to me was the fridge.
0:19:04 > 0:19:09- Yes.- Before that, Mum used to put the milk in the cupboard
0:19:09 > 0:19:14and keep it in the shade, trying to keep it as cool as possible.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17After a day or so, it would always go off anyway.
0:19:17 > 0:19:22My nan used to put it in a bucket of water, just to try and keep things cold.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26For me, I remember when my mum got a washing machine.
0:19:26 > 0:19:31- Top loader with a mangle on it. - Mangle on the top.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33It used to be right up against the sink
0:19:33 > 0:19:38and the washing would be done and then out and into the mangle.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40- Yeah.- Then onto the washing line.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44- For a woman, that was like... - Yeah, because before that,
0:19:44 > 0:19:48I remember my mum putting it in like this boiler thing
0:19:48 > 0:19:55- and boiling it all up.- Then the big mangle.- The huge mangle outside. The outdoor mangle.
0:19:55 > 0:20:00- Yeah. Or using the old scrubbing board. Wash board.- Wash board.
0:20:00 > 0:20:06It's truly amazing. And you know, the bloke who was on that little film
0:20:06 > 0:20:09invented the parking meter!
0:20:09 > 0:20:14- Nice guy!- Give him one!- I liked him until I was told that!
0:20:14 > 0:20:19Anyway, now it's back into the newsreel archive
0:20:19 > 0:20:22for another decade-defining moment of the '50s.
0:20:22 > 0:20:30The 22nd September 1955 marked the launch of commercial telly.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33And a whole new world of advertising.
0:20:33 > 0:20:38Do you remember what the first ever British TV ad was?
0:20:38 > 0:20:40I do!
0:20:43 > 0:20:47- NEWSREEL:- The Independent Television Act was passed by both houses of Parliament.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49When this new act became law in 1954,
0:20:49 > 0:20:56it gave the go-ahead for Britain's first commercial TV channel, ATV.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06But only those in the know recognised the cut-throat competition
0:21:06 > 0:21:10that was then unleashed behind the scenes in the advertising world.
0:21:12 > 0:21:17I and my team were all very excited about what we were doing.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21We felt a bit like pioneers of some kind.
0:21:21 > 0:21:26But then, I guess, so did everybody in our rival agencies across London
0:21:26 > 0:21:29who were all doing the same thing.
0:21:29 > 0:21:34Brian Palmer was a copywriter at the advertising agency Young & Rubicam.
0:21:34 > 0:21:41He was one of many ad men hoping their ad would get the prestigious first slot on launch night.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Another young hopeful, and Brian's competitor
0:21:44 > 0:21:46was Archie Pitcher from Ogilvies.
0:21:46 > 0:21:52I was very young and just in the business for a couple of years.
0:21:52 > 0:21:56And of course the advent of the prospect of television,
0:21:56 > 0:21:59commercial television, was really quite fantastic.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03The shine of the new venture had been somewhat tarnished
0:22:03 > 0:22:07by church leaders, teachers, university professors and MPs,
0:22:07 > 0:22:11who all lined up to bash the new commercial channel.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15The BBC were against it because it didn't conform to the Reithian idea
0:22:15 > 0:22:18and introduced competition into their monopoly.
0:22:18 > 0:22:23Winston Churchill was against it. Aneurin Bevan and a lot of parliamentarians
0:22:23 > 0:22:28just thought it was not the right thing for Britain.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32And that was tough and it was quite a difficult time
0:22:32 > 0:22:35because you didn't know if it would actually happen.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39But happen it did, and the ad agencies swung into action.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41They were under starter's orders.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45'It's fresh as ice. It's Gibbs S.R. toothpaste.'
0:22:45 > 0:22:49Brian started filming his ad for Gibbs S.R. toothpaste.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51But there were teething problems!
0:22:51 > 0:22:55Well, it's obvious once you start thinking of it,
0:22:55 > 0:22:59that filming a block of ice under red hot lights,
0:22:59 > 0:23:03which you had in those days, is not going to be a very easy thing to do!
0:23:03 > 0:23:07Archie also had trouble getting his Batchelor peas ad together, too.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11- #- Here is the news concerning Batchelors wonderful peas.- #
0:23:11 > 0:23:15We had endless rehearsals to get the ditty right.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Over and over again as one has to do for that kind of thing.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23Eventually, it was in the can and off we went.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26- #- You can be sure that the time's always right
0:23:26 > 0:23:30- #- For Batchelors wonderful peas!- #
0:23:32 > 0:23:37Both men waited with bated breath to see whose commercial would be shown first
0:23:37 > 0:23:40as this coveted slot was chosen by lottery.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44'Studio, staff and technical equipment have all been assembled.
0:23:44 > 0:23:49A new public service is about to be launched over the rooftops of London.'
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Launch night arrived.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55But to many people's surprise, the BBC tried to stage a spoiler
0:23:55 > 0:23:57with a cliff-hanger from The Archers.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01- ON RADIO:- What's gone wrong? - She's...dead.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05It didn't really spoil the launch of ITV
0:24:05 > 0:24:10because people were there at 6.45. ATV wasn't launched until 8.22.
0:24:10 > 0:24:16So it wasn't really the spoiler that perhaps the BBC had planned to do.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18At last the great night came.
0:24:18 > 0:24:24We were actually going to be on the air. We knew we'd be somewhere on that first night.
0:24:24 > 0:24:30It was a very exciting night. We all gathered there in the agency, Ogilvies,
0:24:30 > 0:24:34and waited with huge anticipation.
0:24:34 > 0:24:39And I invite all our viewers to a great evening's entertainment.
0:24:39 > 0:24:43Each of our two ad men craved that all-important first slot
0:24:43 > 0:24:46which would only be revealed on screen.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50The first break came. A star burst on the screen.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53And wow! There was our ad. We were so thrilled!
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Gibbs S.R.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59They actually cheered when the Batchelors peas ad came on.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01We were over the moon!
0:25:01 > 0:25:03- #- Wonderful peas!- #
0:25:03 > 0:25:07But the television ad didn't quite live up to its hype.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10ITV nearly sank without trace.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12I used to have a dreadful time with my hair.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15It was so dry and unmanageable.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Britain wasn't quite ready for it in '55,
0:25:18 > 0:25:22but within a year, ITV's ratings outstripped those of the BBC
0:25:22 > 0:25:28and by the end of the '50s, they had grabbed a quarter of every sort of advertising revenue.
0:25:28 > 0:25:33Commercial television and TV ads had truly arrived.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37We perhaps didn't realise that we were building something
0:25:37 > 0:25:41that has grown and been a real contribution to the nation.
0:25:41 > 0:25:47I thought it was actually the beginning of the consumer revolution.
0:25:47 > 0:25:52It really was what sparked off the next 50 years of the way we lived.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56Hi-Fi lipstick. New because it stays on till you take it off.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00A new automatic refill that clicks into a new celebrity case.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03New high-fidelity colours.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05'An entirely new exciting lipstick.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09Hi-Fi, a new kind of lipstick from Max Factor!
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Wow! That brought back some memories.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18- Lovely to have you with us, Archie. - Thank you.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21How was that? Was it like Mad Men,
0:26:21 > 0:26:26all going for it in those days of advertising?
0:26:26 > 0:26:30It wasn't quite like Mad Men, cos it was a very serious business.
0:26:30 > 0:26:35People were very ill-informed about how to do it.
0:26:35 > 0:26:41And we were reaching out technically to find as much knowledge
0:26:41 > 0:26:44about how to make commercials as we could find.
0:26:44 > 0:26:49Later, a lot of very key top directors
0:26:49 > 0:26:52cut their teeth on making commercials.
0:26:52 > 0:26:57Karel Reisz, Ridley Scott, Alan Parker.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Fantastic. That's how they started their careers.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04But in the time that we're talking about here, '55,
0:27:04 > 0:27:08and the run-up to that, we were casting around for people
0:27:08 > 0:27:16who had some know-how and knowledge either from America, from the BBC, dare I say it,
0:27:16 > 0:27:18and also from the cinema.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22What about you? Do you remember Gibb S.R as the first advert, Marty?
0:27:22 > 0:27:26- I wouldn't have remembered that.- Do you remember any from that period?
0:27:26 > 0:27:32Craven A, some of the cigarette ones with debonair men in trilby hats.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36- It was all the big thing then, to smoke.- Course it was.
0:27:36 > 0:27:41It was cool! You did Batchelors peas. I nearly got a job
0:27:41 > 0:27:44for Batchelors savoury rice.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47There was a whole commercial thing going on.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51I remember one of them was a couple of wrestlers in a grip
0:27:51 > 0:27:55and one said, "Hurry up. I want to get home for my Batchelors... "
0:27:55 > 0:28:00And I did a pilot thing in a tango and I was dancing round.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04I went, "Let's get this over with and go home for some Batchelors savoury rice!"
0:28:04 > 0:28:08Never got the job. If you'd been there, Archie, you'd have booked me?
0:28:08 > 0:28:10- Would I?- Course you would!
0:28:10 > 0:28:13Anyway, I thought all that time
0:28:13 > 0:28:16I used to look forward to the ads!
0:28:16 > 0:28:19It's amazing. Now I try and fast-forward them!
0:28:19 > 0:28:24But in those days it was so unusual. It was one of those things.
0:28:24 > 0:28:28But great days and thanks a lot. Lovely. Anyway.
0:28:28 > 0:28:34So, with the opportunity for greater TV exposure on two channels -
0:28:34 > 0:28:40you can't imagine it, can you - two exciting channels and we were blown away!
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Blimey, times have changed!
0:28:42 > 0:28:48Many stars of stage and variety were having a go at making names on the telly.
0:28:48 > 0:28:53People like Bob Monkhouse, Hughie Green, Bruce Forsyth.
0:28:53 > 0:28:57Remember him? And of course the nation's darlings, The Beverley Sisters.
0:29:03 > 0:29:07'In 1953, television was a new sensation.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10'And so were three rising stars from East London.'
0:29:10 > 0:29:12The Beverley Sisters!
0:29:12 > 0:29:13- #- Hi Li Hi Lo...- #
0:29:13 > 0:29:17Dressed identically and singing perky pop harmonies,
0:29:17 > 0:29:19Teddy, Joy and Babs Beverley
0:29:19 > 0:29:22can lay claim to being Britain's first girl group.
0:29:22 > 0:29:28Today, twins Teddy and Babs have the same quirky charm that captured the nation's hearts
0:29:28 > 0:29:3160 years ago.
0:29:31 > 0:29:35Joy's sorry she can't be here today. She can't face the traffic on the M25!
0:29:35 > 0:29:40She's 88, you see. She's entitled. We're 85, each of us.
0:29:40 > 0:29:44The Beverley Sisters have been singing as long as they can remember.
0:29:44 > 0:29:49Went to bed singing, woke up singing!
0:29:49 > 0:29:51We inherited a talent to harmonise.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54Nobody wanted to sing with a low voice, so we tossed up and I lost.
0:29:54 > 0:29:58And then I was 55 years singing in my boots!
0:29:58 > 0:30:01- #- You never told me it was anything...- #
0:30:01 > 0:30:03As Britain switched on to television,
0:30:03 > 0:30:08those who'd been working the variety circuit made the big leap to the small screen.
0:30:08 > 0:30:12Stars like Bob Monkhouse, Hughie Green and Bruce Forsyth
0:30:12 > 0:30:14would quickly make telly their own.
0:30:14 > 0:30:18The BBC gave The Beverley Sisters their big TV break.
0:30:18 > 0:30:21We were made for television. But we had to be very brave.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23We were very shy, weren't we?
0:30:23 > 0:30:26But all television then was live.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29We did it all ourselves. Choreography, singing, lyrics.
0:30:29 > 0:30:33If you see us on television, you may wonder why we're so...
0:30:33 > 0:30:35One microphone for the three harmonies.
0:30:35 > 0:30:41We had to stay absolutely still. You couldn't have a hand mic and move around.
0:30:41 > 0:30:43- No such thing.- One mic between us.
0:30:43 > 0:30:49# Down in the valley #
0:30:49 > 0:30:52We'd go to a television studio and do our show there
0:30:52 > 0:30:54then we'd drive to a theatre and play there.
0:30:54 > 0:30:59And then back to another theatre and back to the first theatre.
0:30:59 > 0:31:03We were playing to several theatres a day plus television. Plus radio.
0:31:03 > 0:31:08- We never thought about being celebrities or TV stars. - Just got on with it.- Yes.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11But being famous was a mixed blessing.
0:31:11 > 0:31:15Being a celebrity in those days, we couldn't go out for 20 years.
0:31:15 > 0:31:17You'd be stopped all the time.
0:31:17 > 0:31:23When Joy married England football captain Billy Wright in 1958,
0:31:23 > 0:31:28it created as much excitement as the wedding of Posh and Becks 41 years later.
0:31:28 > 0:31:31It was supposed to be a secret wedding when they got married.
0:31:31 > 0:31:34We were working in the theatre every night
0:31:34 > 0:31:37and Billy was playing for England at the time.
0:31:37 > 0:31:39We didn't have many hours off.
0:31:39 > 0:31:44- So we drove down to Poole in Dorset. - It was a secret.- A secret.
0:31:44 > 0:31:48- Crowds hanging off the lamp posts! - The crowd was so big we couldn't move.
0:31:48 > 0:31:51- We couldn't get to...- So Billy rolled down the window
0:31:51 > 0:31:54- and called...- "Policeman, what's going on here?
0:31:54 > 0:31:59- "All these people..."- "We want to get married and now there's this occasion going on."
0:31:59 > 0:32:03And he said, "They're all here because you're getting married!"
0:32:03 > 0:32:08Teddy and Babs found an unusual stand-in while Joy was honeymooning.
0:32:08 > 0:32:10A young Bob Monkhouse!
0:32:11 > 0:32:16- #- While I'm babysitting
0:32:16 > 0:32:19# And we'll sing a sweet... #
0:32:19 > 0:32:23But the fun and games came with firm rules.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26They were so strict, particularly with girls.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29And we're not allowed to wear trousers. Did you know that?
0:32:29 > 0:32:33Even when Joy went to a football match at Wembley with Billy Wright
0:32:33 > 0:32:37he said, "Joy, they've told me to tell you not to wear trousers."
0:32:37 > 0:32:41They were shocked. Not even to a football match.
0:32:41 > 0:32:45- They were very smart trousers in those days.- Not jeans like now!
0:32:45 > 0:32:47Just trousers.
0:32:47 > 0:32:49The censorship on young girls was terrible.
0:32:49 > 0:32:53If they deemed it was sexy or saucy, out.
0:32:53 > 0:32:57- We came over as goody-goody, but we were a bit naughty.- A bit naughty.
0:32:57 > 0:33:01Naughty, maybe, but oh, so nice!
0:33:01 > 0:33:06- #- Good night, my darling
0:33:06 > 0:33:16- #- Darling, I'm saying good night!- #
0:33:17 > 0:33:20Did you see those frocks? Nice!
0:33:20 > 0:33:24- Beautiful hairstyles. Always immaculate.- All those girls in those days.
0:33:24 > 0:33:28Alma Cogan. They looked so lovely.
0:33:28 > 0:33:30Pristine. Everything in place.
0:33:30 > 0:33:34- Did you work with The Beverley Sisters?- I would have done.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36It's such a long time ago now!
0:33:37 > 0:33:41- But you appeared on ATV in those days?- I did.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44- It must have helped your career. - The Oh Boy! Show.
0:33:44 > 0:33:48That was the best TV show I've ever been in in my life.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51That brought forward people like myself.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54It made Cliff, no question. And Billy Fury, artists like that,
0:33:54 > 0:33:59wouldn't have had the impact without that show. It was phenomenal.
0:33:59 > 0:34:04The thing was, back in those days, there were lots of variety shows
0:34:04 > 0:34:08- that you could appear on.- There was.
0:34:08 > 0:34:14And also, weekends, you always looked forward to The Palladium.
0:34:14 > 0:34:20Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Absolutely incredible.
0:34:20 > 0:34:25- You must have appeared on that. - I did.- So many pop singers did in those days.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27Yeah, I did.
0:34:27 > 0:34:31I always feel Strictly Come Dancing is a bit like a variety show.
0:34:31 > 0:34:35You've got dancing, the band, the singers, a bit of comedy from Bruce.
0:34:35 > 0:34:38It's sort of got a variety feel to it.
0:34:38 > 0:34:42- And they've got you! - The old judge in the middle! What more could you want?
0:34:42 > 0:34:47- Fabulous. Lovely, The Beverley Sisters.- They were.- Yeah.
0:34:47 > 0:34:52Now, as all of you lovers of retro know,
0:34:52 > 0:34:56the '50s are stuffed full of brilliant style.
0:34:56 > 0:35:02Some furniture and fabrics from that time are regarded as classics.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04I mean, just look what we have here.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07We're sitting on a fortune here, Marty.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10I think we are. Ooh, that's lovely.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13New materials, new prints, new designers.
0:35:13 > 0:35:18After the dark days of the war, doors opened for a new generation
0:35:18 > 0:35:22with fresh eyes on the world about them.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26- NEWSREEL:- If you like really modern things,
0:35:26 > 0:35:28if you've seen the light, as designers say,
0:35:28 > 0:35:33you'll be fascinated by the latest collection of contemporary furniture
0:35:33 > 0:35:34by Christopher and Anthony Heal.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37It was out with the old and in with the new.
0:35:37 > 0:35:41Ironing boards, trolleys and pull-out beds were all '50s innovations
0:35:41 > 0:35:43as were these clever ideas.
0:35:43 > 0:35:47Among the novel ideas is this cocktail cabinet by Nigel Walters
0:35:47 > 0:35:51fitted with a simple device that enables the door to be opened out into a bar.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55An idea long overdue is this dining table
0:35:55 > 0:36:00that can be adjusted to three heights by a simple lever movement even when fully laden.
0:36:00 > 0:36:04It can be used at normal height or lowered if you're in an armchair.
0:36:04 > 0:36:08Solving the problem of the small bedroom, here's a practical suite
0:36:08 > 0:36:13designed in pine and painted metal by Ernest Race.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16It wasn't only furniture that was being reinvented.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19Mary White had a new take on floral fabrics
0:36:19 > 0:36:20that was bang on trend.
0:36:20 > 0:36:24A young art student at the beginning of the decade,
0:36:24 > 0:36:28Mary drew on her childhood love of plants for her design inspiration.
0:36:28 > 0:36:33We used to go out into the country and take lots and lots of photographs.
0:36:33 > 0:36:36Then I would sit down and doodle
0:36:36 > 0:36:40and then I would sketch them into a pattern,
0:36:40 > 0:36:42make sure it was in repeat.
0:36:42 > 0:36:48My boyfriend persuaded me to go to London with my folder of designs.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50It was a bit cheeky, I think!
0:36:50 > 0:36:55I would just go and say, "Would you be interested in looking at my designs?"
0:36:55 > 0:36:58It was all knocking at the door and trying.
0:37:02 > 0:37:06Mary's designs would go on to become synonymous with the 1950s
0:37:06 > 0:37:11as new technology brought fabrics like hers to a hungry mass market
0:37:11 > 0:37:13as curtains and cushions.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17A machine like this engraves the copper-plated rollers
0:37:17 > 0:37:19which print coloured fabrics.
0:37:19 > 0:37:22The pattern has been cut onto a metal plate.
0:37:22 > 0:37:25By following the grooves in this,
0:37:25 > 0:37:28the operator can repeat the design many times over on the roller.
0:37:28 > 0:37:31I sold to other firms in London.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34Then I started to go up to Manchester.
0:37:34 > 0:37:40Eventually, I had so much money we bought a new car, a Vauxhall Velox, six cylinder.
0:37:40 > 0:37:41It was smashing!
0:37:46 > 0:37:50Mary wasn't the only young designer making a splash in the '50s.
0:37:50 > 0:37:53The Festival of Britain in 1951
0:37:53 > 0:37:56showcased the best in new British design
0:37:56 > 0:37:59and the crowds flocked in.
0:38:04 > 0:38:06The daughter of furniture makers,
0:38:06 > 0:38:10Cheryl Shear had backstage access in the run-up to the festival opening.
0:38:10 > 0:38:15I used to visit with my parents at the weekend
0:38:15 > 0:38:19because they were installing the furniture in the Festival Hall.
0:38:19 > 0:38:24There was the whole vitality of all these designers we were mixing with.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27Among them was Robin Day, not the television personality,
0:38:27 > 0:38:33but a young designer, a man with bold ideas on the new '50s style.
0:38:33 > 0:38:39I know that some people feel modern furniture is strange and unsympathetic.
0:38:39 > 0:38:44But I think the best of it does carry on the traditions of historic design.
0:38:44 > 0:38:47That is, it does solve the problems of today
0:38:47 > 0:38:49with the methods of today.
0:38:56 > 0:39:01Across Britain, factories were looking at new ways of working with wood.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03Cheryl's dad ran the Hille furniture company
0:39:03 > 0:39:07and collaborated with Robin to make a chair
0:39:07 > 0:39:09that stacked.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16I'm sitting in the Robin Day Hille stack chair
0:39:16 > 0:39:22which he designed at the beginning of the decade in 1950.
0:39:22 > 0:39:25He was able to use our technology
0:39:25 > 0:39:29to produce a ply-laminated chair.
0:39:29 > 0:39:36Robin came up with the ingenious way of moulding the plywood
0:39:36 > 0:39:37in different curves
0:39:37 > 0:39:42to produce these curved backs and seats
0:39:42 > 0:39:47to produce a really flexible and very light chair.
0:39:47 > 0:39:52Of course, selling these new designs required radical thinking too.
0:39:52 > 0:39:59My brother-in-law, on trying to sell it to the GLC for schools,
0:39:59 > 0:40:04actually dropped it from the third floor of the GLC building
0:40:04 > 0:40:10and fortunately, it didn't break. I think it landed on all fours.
0:40:10 > 0:40:14And we did manage to get the order.
0:40:16 > 0:40:211950s designers were changing the way we looked at the world around us.
0:40:21 > 0:40:25Everything had been very austere during the war.
0:40:25 > 0:40:34Suddenly we had all this excitement of colour, of shapes, new materials, new technology.
0:40:34 > 0:40:39As a child, it all seemed very exciting.
0:40:39 > 0:40:44It started a whole new era of design in the UK.
0:40:44 > 0:40:48And those pioneering designs, like Mary White's fabrics,
0:40:48 > 0:40:54are coming full circle, proving as popular today as they were in 1952.
0:40:54 > 0:41:01I feel very chuffed to think that my designs are coming back into fashion.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04I'm still inspired by shapes.
0:41:04 > 0:41:07I look at the trees outside.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09Beautiful.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14And to think that lady, as a young girl,
0:41:14 > 0:41:19designed such an iconic cushion cover or whatever it was.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21It's absolutely great.
0:41:21 > 0:41:26- A great achievement.- And as fresh now, 60 years later, as it was then.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29- Hasn't done bad, has it?- It's good.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32Have you got anything from the '50s? Iconic bits of kit?
0:41:32 > 0:41:37I've got a lovely big juke box. The thing I love about it is it's got a big dial.
0:41:37 > 0:41:43A couple of dials, and you spin the dial up. A120, or whatever.
0:41:43 > 0:41:47Then you press it and the arm comes over.
0:41:47 > 0:41:50- Up it comes and then turns. - That's right.
0:41:50 > 0:41:56- Down it goes. Then the arm comes across. They were wonderful. - Great sound, as well.
0:41:56 > 0:42:01I loved the coffee bars. We had one open in Welwyn high street.
0:42:01 > 0:42:05And it was like being in America!
0:42:05 > 0:42:10- You had a glass cup and a saucer. - Real coffee.- Real coffee.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12A big machine. Yeah. Nine pence, it was.
0:42:12 > 0:42:16You wanted to sit in there as long as you could
0:42:16 > 0:42:20- so you'd sip it.- Keep the girl in there, as well!
0:42:20 > 0:42:24There was about an inch of froth and a drop of coffee! Mmm!
0:42:24 > 0:42:26Fabulous! I'll tell you what, Marty,
0:42:26 > 0:42:29I could talk to you all day.
0:42:29 > 0:42:32- It's been so much pleasure for me. - My pleasure.
0:42:32 > 0:42:33Thank you.
0:42:33 > 0:42:36Well, all good things must come to an end.
0:42:36 > 0:42:41I'll be here tomorrow with even more fabulous '50s tales.
0:42:41 > 0:42:46We've got spies, we've got smog, we've got the class divide
0:42:46 > 0:42:47and we've got calypso.
0:42:47 > 0:42:52And they're all told by you.
0:42:52 > 0:42:58That's me. My barrow's outside. Ta-ra for now. Bye-ee!
0:42:58 > 0:42:59See you later!
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