🎧 Britain in the 1980s
20th Century
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33m
Dominic Sandbrook is one of Britain’s most prolific historians, currently working his way through a series on Britain since the Second World War. His most recent book examines the pivotal early years of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership in Britain. In this podcast, Dominic and I discuss the social change of the tumultuous 1980s, a decade of the personal computer, snooker, Spandau Ballet, the Falklands War, and of course, The Iron Lady.
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