c 1970 to c 1979

It has been called the worst treatment disaster in the NHS's history. But when it was first used Factor VIII was pitched as a medical miracle: a drug made from human plasma that enabled haemophiliacs to lead lives free of fear that a minor injury would prove fatal. But in the 1980s, tens of thous...

Charts the development of gay culture and the rise of LGBTQ politics in the UK, from the formation of the Gay Liberation Front to the present day, through the music that provided the soundtrack. Fifty years on from Britain's first Pride march, the long road to LGBT equality continues. Through pro...

The bare facts were straightforward. In 1974, 18-year-old Gudmundur Einarsson disappeared after a boozy night at a dance in a fishing town near Reykjavik. 11 months later Geirfinnur Einarsson (no relation), a quiet family man, went missing from Keflavik harbour in the southwest of Iceland after b...

One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of this terrible crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades. In this powerful, scrup...

As Margaret Thatcher prepared to enter 10 Downing Street, four bands born of punk - Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, the Cure and Magazine - found a way to distil the dissonance and darkness of the shifting decade into a new form of music. Pushing at the taboos the Sex Pistols had unlocke...

An electrifying look at key moments in music and entertainment history between 1955 and 1979, which helped move gay culture from the margins to the mainstream and changed the face of pop forever - from the ambiguous sexuality of stars such as Little Richard in the 1950s through to David Bowie, gl...

In this history, Dominic Sandbrook recreates the gaudy atmosphere of the early 1970s: the world of Enoch Powell & Tony Benn, David Bowie & Brian Clough, Germaine Greer & Mary Whitehouse. An age when the unions were on the march & the socialist revolution seemed at hand.

Catherine Taylor's account of growing up in northern England in the 1970s and 80s shines a light on the particular history of a time and place - that 'strange country of the North' as George Orwell famously called it. Against this backdrop, and of music, the miners' strike, fears of nuclear war, ...

When Fleetwood Mac were recording & touring with their classic album 'Rumours', they were one of the biggest music acts in the world. But behind the facade of their pop songs was a world of internal animosity & strife, drug use, incestuous sexual shenanigans & wild partying. This is the story fro...

When Cyrille Regis became one of the first black players to be selected for the full England team, he was sent a package in the mail. Inside it was a silver bullet and a note that read: 'You'll get one of these through your knees if you step on our Wembley turf'. In the 1978/79 football season Re...