Looking back at … school days
September. Whether you are five or 65, the start of September is almost certainly associated, through distant memory or current reality, with going back to school. For some this may bring a sense of w ...
Tag Archives: 1960s
Looking back at … holidays
This month, in the midst of this wonderful, warm British summer, we scroll back through history to take a look at what holidays were like in the 1960s. Today, jetting off to exotic destinations, or pa ...
Michael Caine makes it personal in this fun, if flawed documentary on the swinging sixties
Joyce Glasser reviews My Generation (March 14, 2018) Cert 12A, 85 min. Event Cinema – in cinemas, one day only, Tuesday March 14, 2018. In My Generation director David Batty and Michael Caine’s contem ...
The first television sitcoms
Today there are very few programmes made for television that I would class as a ‘situation comedy’, but in the early days of domestic broadcasting they were a staple of family viewing. We were one of ...