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The Seventies

Episode 2 of 4

Mel Giedroyc narrates as The Seventies trawls the archives to show how 大象传媒 Two has been a guide to lifestyle trends.

Keeping track of lifestyle trends in the decade that style forgot was one of 大象传媒 Two's bigger challenges, as the deliciously arch narration of Bake Off's Mel Giedroyc reminds us in this amusing romp through the channel's archive.

This, after all, was an era of dodgy fashion, stodgy food and bodged politics that had us running to escape into a world of stripped pine, country kitchens and Laura Ashley. But the programme shows that the 1970s also resemble our own times - from house price inflation and soaring energy costs through to worries about the threat to 'real' food and environmental sustainability.

58 minutes

Last on

Tue 16 Apr 2024 15:45

Music Played

  • Lou Reed

    Walk On The Wild Side

  • Chicago

    Street Player

  • Stealers Wheel

    Stuck in the Middle

  • Jimmy Smith

    Main Title From "The Carpetbaggers"

  • Commodores

    Machine Gun

  • Highly Likely

    Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads

  • Wayne Hill

    Left Bank Two ('Vision On Gallery' Theme Tune)

    Performer: The Noveltones.
  • Bedlam

    Harvest Moon

  • Herb Alpert

    Rise

  • Incredible Bongo Band

    Apache

  • The Doobie Brothers

    Long Train Running

  • MFSB

    TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) (feat. The Three Degrees)

  • Freddie King

    Sugar Sweet

  • Eumir Deodato

    Also sprach Zarathustra

  • Creedence Clearwater Revival

    I Heard It Through The Grapevine

  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Simple Man

  • Led Zeppelin

    Tangerine

  • The Temperance Seven

    My Blue Heaven

  • Canned Heat

    Going Up The Country

  • Frank Mills

    Music Box Dancer

  • Brighouse and Rastrick Band

    The Floral Dance

  • Eric Clapton

    Cocaine

  • Roxy Music

    Love Is The Drug

  • Madness

    Our House

  • Badfinger

    Come and Get It

  • Mr. Bloe

    Groovin' With Mr. Bloe

  • Lou Reed

    Walk On The Wild Side

  • The Noveltones

    Left Bank

  • Incredible Bongo Band

    Apache

  • The Doobie Brothers

    Long Train Runnin'

  • Eumir Deodato

    Also Sprach Zarathustra

  • The Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band

    The Floral Dance

  • Roxy Music

    Love Is the Drug

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Credits

Role Contributor
Narrator Mel Giedroyc
Producer Gerry Dawson
Director Gerry Dawson
Series Producer William Naylor
Participant Eve Pollard
Participant Gyles Brandreth
Participant Wayne Hemingway
Participant Peter York
Participant Prue Leith
Participant Loyd Grossman
Participant Oz Clarke
Participant Peter Seabrook
Participant Alan Titchmarsh

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