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The Time Warp

Sarah Dunant reflects that today's harsher judgement of some of the sexual behaviour prevalent in the 1970s springs in part from the freedom forged in that decade.

Sarah Dunant reflects that today's harsher judgement of some of the sexual behaviour prevalent in the 1970s springs in part from the freedom forged in that decade. "Without the seventies, we would never have had the debate, the public awareness, the sense of outrage or even the occasionally blunt tool of the law to judge the present and the past."

Producer: Sheila Cook.

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Sun 16 Mar 2014 08:48

A Point of View: The strange time warp of the 1970s

A Point of View: The strange time warp of the 1970s

The sexual mores of the 1970s have been the subject of intense focus recently, but there is much to be celebrated about this period of "volcanic upheaval", writes Sarah Dunant.

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Presenter Sarah Dunant
Producer Sheila Cook

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  • Fri 14 Mar 2014 20:50
  • Sun 16 Mar 2014 08:48

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