Book of the Week - Family Britain
Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and intimate story of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary people
Book of the Week - Family Britain - A Pretty Mess
Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and intimate history of Britain in the 1950s. An increasingly affluent and confident Britain is rocked by the Suez crisis.
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Book of the Week - Family Britain - All Madly Educative
Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and intimate history of Britain in the 1950s. The Festival of Britain heralds the beginning of the end of austerity.
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Book of the Week - Family Britain - Brisk Buying and Selling
Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's history of Britain in the 1950s. A new era of affluence is fuelled by a boom in advertising and the arrival of commercial television.
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Book of the Week - Family Britain - Family Favourites
Deference, respectability, conformity, restraint and trust - the core values of family and society begin to fray at the edges.
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Book of the Week - Family Britain - God Save Our Queen
Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's history of Britain in the 1950s. While the country is spellbound by the Coronation of 1953, another royal soap opera is about to unfold.
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