The People's Songs Episodes Episode guide
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I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor - Social Networking and iPod Culture
The burgeoning internet allows Arctic Monkeys to turn the music business on its head.
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Are 'Friends' Electric? - A Dystopian Vision
Numan's bleak dystopian vision struck a chord with the nation's disenfranchised youth.
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Telstar - The Sound of the Future
Joe Meek's music brought romance to the space race, albeit in a DIY, home-made fashion.
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Bonkers - The Sound of 21st-Century Britain
Dizzee is the sound of 21st-century Britain, mirroring the culture clash of modern life.
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Coronation Rag - God Save the Queen
The world's eyes turned to London on 2 June 1953 as the coronation was viewed globally.
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Things Can Only Get Better - Cool Britannia
The soundtrack to the rise of New Labour, an era when we were intrigued by Cool Britannia.
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Part of the Union - We All Stand Together
A jaunty take on political conflict, a wry and humorous anthem for the strike-bound 1970s.
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Ghost Town - Post-Industrial Decline
Ghost Town was one of the bleakest no.1 singles ever, but it resonated with the nation.
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Brimful of Asha - The British-Asian Experience in Pop
Cornershop took the British-Asian experience worldwide with an all-conquering pop song.
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Smalltown Boy
Openly gay pop arrived in the UK in the 1980s thanks to Bronski Beat and Pet Shop Boys.
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Starman: Androgyny Arrives in the Living Room
Stuart Maconie explores David Bowie's Starman, a watershed moment in pop.
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Je T'Aime - Sex Please, We're British
Stuart Maconie examines British attitudes to sex and changes in music and public opinion.
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Ebeneezer Goode - The Second Summer of Love
Stuart Maconie investigates the roots and impact of rave and club culture in the 1990s.
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Whiter Shade of Pale - Britain Skips the Light Fandango
Stuart Maconie travels back to the '60s and the infamous 'Summer of Love'.
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Rehab - The Price of Modern Fame
Stuart Maconie examines the tabloid tradition of 'build them up and knock 'em down'.
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My Boy Lollipop - The Caribbean Comes to Britain
Stuart Maconie looks at the beginnings of modern multi-cultural Britain in the 1940s.
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God Save the Queen - When Punk Rocked Jubilee Britain
Stuart examines British life and music in 1977, the year of the silver jubilee and punk.
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Rock Island Line: Skiffle - Britain's first DIY pop music
Stuart Maconie assesses the 1950s and hears how skiffle was born out of post-war austerity
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She Loves You - 'You never had it so good'
Stuart Maconie recounts the social change, optimism and Beatlemania of the early 1960s.
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Two Tribes - The Threat of Nuclear War
Stuart Maconie reflects on Britain in the shadow of the mushroom cloud in the Cold War age
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We'll Meet Again - Britain in World War II
Stuart Maconie explores life during wartime in the first part of an epic new series.
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Ghost Town
Stuart Maconie charts the history of modern Britain in just over 50 records.
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Brimful Of Asha – The British Asian experience in pop
Cornershop took the British-Asian experience world-wide with an all-conquering pop song.
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Smalltown Boy
Openly gay pop arrived in the UK in the 80s thanks to Bronski Beat and The Pet Shop Boys.
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We'll Meet Again: Britain in World War II
Another chance to hear the story of Dame Vera Lynn and the story of her most famous song.
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Starman – Androgyny arrives in the living room
Bowie's Starman was a watershed moment, introducing Britain to androgyny.
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Je T'Aime - Sex please, we're British
More British history with Stuart Maconie who looks at attitudes to sex, scandal and pop.
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Whiter Shade of Pale
Stuart Maconie profiles A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harem.
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Rehab
The celebrity culture and rise & often downfall of stars, featuring Rehab by Amy Winehouse
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God Save The Queen: When Punk Rocked Jubilee Britain
Stuart examines British life and music in 1977, the year of the Silver Jubilee and punk.