The Today Generation - born 28 October 1957
During 2007, the Today Generation, born on the same day as the Today programme launched, blogged about their lives - their memories of the great eventsÌýand personal events in their own lives.ÌýÌý
Beverly Tail
Family holidays, weekly comics, Famous Five, Knebworth, friends serving in the Falklands War …
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Carol Kelly
Bunty annuals, teenage shopping trips, Tokyo Olympics 1964, moon landing 1969, hooked on the Monkees ...
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Steve Morris
Manchester and punk, The Hacienda, forming Joy Division,Ìýthe New Order years...
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More about Steve
Ian Denyer
Seventies fashions, working in Iran and revisiting in the 90s, changing technology, toys, games and guns
Kate Slater
Radio Luxembourg, Slade, changing technology, first holiday in Austria, bedroom décor, subbing on a teenage mag ...
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Neville Merritt
Essex childhood, IRA demos, keeping warm, The Dish, Airfix, plane spotting in SouthendÌý …
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Paul Mundy
VSO, living in Germany, ‘dippy bread’, snow of ‘63, father’s Navy career, 1966 World Cup final, Young Conservatives …
Roger Troughton
Fussed over by relatives, watching Coronation Street, work experience at a butcher’s, accountancy exams, California holidays ...
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Ruth Crawford
Kircudbright Academy, VSO on St Vincent, teacher training in Dundee, grapepicking in France, pony trekking ...
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Marian Bell
Childhood in County Durham, a politically-aware upbringing, economic crises in the 70s, a passion for dance, marriage and baptism ...
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Judy Petran
Childhood summers in Farnborough, door-to-door sellers, mangles, Walton on Thames …
Nigel Johnson
Prep school in Derbyshire, the Monkeys, Colin Cowdrey, local steel works, homesickness...
Penny Kingsmill
Cowboys and Indians, black pinafores, socks on the mantelpiece, divorce, re-marriage, zip wiring...
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Links across the ´óÏó´«Ã½
Add memories from the last 50 years: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Memoryshare
Audio and video archive at ´óÏó´«Ã½ On This Day
Elsewhere on the web
