Pete Clarke Wrote:
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> What Marr made very clear was that this nostalgia
> for the perfect Britain is very much based on a
> false image of a war-riven, starvation threatened
> nation that only survived because of the massive
> US aid involved in the Marshall Plan (thanks by
> the way). OK, those of us that bother reading
> history and talking to our parents and
> grandparents know this already but what is
> remarkable is that this constructed version of the
> past seems to have occured within a human lifetime
> - it's as if people willfully forgot how awful the
> 50s were.

I didn't see the programme. However, I strongly suspect that many present-day TV and film portrayals of the fifties - the various Agatha Christie series, for example - might bear some of the responsibility for the rose-tinted view.

Hermione
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