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[scat0324]

1968 - Just another year in history. Get over it, Granddad.

Comments

[k425]

I think it was the year I got sat on a radiator at creche and got 3rd degree burns to my thighs.

[scat0324]

I expect Radio 4 will be covering this.

[oldbloke]

I can't remember it.

Actually, 1968 didn't reach Keynsham until 1970.

[oldbloke]

58 arrived in about 62.

[vinaigrettegirl]

Thank you. Seconded.

[popsock]

...but 1968 was the year we wuz robbed by the nasty Spanish and Yugoslavs...

[chrisvenus]

what is the context of this? What did happen in 1968 that presumably they are making a big deal about?

[scat0324]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/1968/ give a summary, I suppose. In the US, Martin Luther King Jr assasinated and other civil rights stuff came to a head, Nixon elected and the Vietnam war was going on; revolutions in France and other places; the climax of the 60s music and drugs scenes. All part of life's rich tapestry, and possibly worthy of some historic recollection, but not the hours and hours of programming (and plugging) that's going on on Radio 4 at the moment. While I'm sure it seems very important to those who happened to be in their early twenties at the time, to me it seems they are a generation becoming less relevant as they retire from positions of influence and going on about something as if to make it important that they were alive then. Further, whereas their parents had stories about WWII that they were all actually involved in, this seems to be a lot of "yes, I heard this on the radio/watched this on television/read this in the papers at the time and

[oldbloke]

"the summer of love" - except that was mainly in a small part of San Francisco. Lots of other hippy stuff.
The "Prague Spring".

[popsock]

I thought "the summer of love" was meant to have been 1967, unless we are taking it as one of those slightly longer periods, i.e. started with Monterey, ended with Altamont.