Recorded in front of a live audience at London’s Riverside Studios, this three-parter was originally to have been presented by Sir David Frost. Sir David’s death in August led to Michael Grade being brought in as a substitute, and the opening programme (25 November) found him comfortably ensconced on a rather crowded platform alongside the film critic Barry Norman, the comedy writer Barry Cryer, the radio critic Gillian Reynolds and the disc jockeys Annie Nightingale and Tony Blackburn – Sixties’ veterans all of them, and each with numberless tales to tell of their adventures at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.What exactly was being celebrated? Well, 1963, we were quickly reminded, was the year of Kennedy’s assassination, Martin Luther King’s “
28 November 2013, The Tablet
1963: That Was The Year That Was
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