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Professor Anthony King, The sixties

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TitleThe sixties
Artist(s):Professor Anthony King
Category:BBC - Study-RESR (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - Study-RESR Albums.)
Label and catalogue number:Picture of images/labels/BBC.jpg labelBBC - RESR 8
Format:Vinyl Albums
Country:UK UK flag
Released:2026
Genre:Childrens View all other tracks listed as Childrens.
Run-off codes:RESR + 8 + 1 BBC
RESR + 8 + 2 BBC
Item deleted?Yes
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Page views:1001 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 7877, rank in albums is 3409.
My rating:*****
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Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionNear mint
BBC records label codeS
Number have1
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Tracks

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Side & track noTrack and ArtistLength
A1Voices and sounds of unrest in Algeria, East Germany and London / Actuality of Eagle landing on the Moon, 20.7.69 at 9.18 p.m. bst / Announcement from Radio Moscow of the first manned space flight by Major Yuri Gagarin in Vostock 1 on 12.4.61 / BBC correspondent Anthony Wigan in New York reports the deaths of American astronauts, Grissom, White and Chaffe in an Apollo spacecraft on 27.1.67 / Neil Armstrong speaks from the moon on 27.1.69 / Part of President John Kennedy's inauguration address on 20.1.61 - warning on nuclear war [Various]
A2Nikita Khruschev berates international gatherings of journalists at the Palais of Chaillot on 18.5.60 after the shooting down of American U2 spy plane over Russia on 1.5.60 / President John Kennedy comments on his first meeting with Mr. Khruschev in Vienna on 6.7.61. The East Germans began building the Berlin Wall in August, 1961 / On 22.10.62 President John Kennedy discloses the U2 reconnaissance planes had seen evidence of Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba. He outlines the stand the U. S. is making / President John Kennedy visits West Berlin on 26.6.63. [Various]
A3Changes in Africa - "Wind of Change" address to both Houses of the South African Parliament by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 3.2.60 / Actuality report of street fighting in Algeria in March, 1962 / Actuality from Nigerian Independence celebrations on 30.9.60 / Prime Minister Harold Wilson comdemns Rhodesia's UDI on 11.11.65. [Various]
A4General de Gaulle says no in January, 1963, to Britain joining the E. E.C. / Actuality student rioters in Paris in May, 1968 / M. Pompidou, installed as successor to de Gaulle on 20.7.69 says France has no objection in principle to Britain eventually joining the Common Market [Various]
A5At the Labour Party annual conference in Scarborough in October, 1960, party leader Hugh Gaitskell speaks against the party's vote to support unilateral nuclear disarmament / Actuality returning officer at Orpington, announcing the victory of Eric Lubbock, Liberal, on 15.3.62 / At the Labour Party annual conference in Scarborough, 1963, Harold Wilson, party leader after the death of Hugh Gaitskell in January, 1963, equates socialism with automation and progress / At the Conservative party annuial conference in Blackpool in October, 1963 Sir Alec Douglas-Home announces Prime Minister Harold Wilson's resignation / On 16.10.64, Harold Wilson announces he has formed a Labour administration. [Various]
B1Selwyn Lloyd, Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer July 1960-62 speaks to his constituents in Wirral. Cheshire, on 19.7.62, about his economic policies / George Brown, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, October 1964-August 12966 introduces a prices and incomes policy on 4.7.66 / At the T. U. C. in Brighton on 6.9.67. Robert Willis, joint secretary of the National Graphical Association spoke against the government's policies / 18.11.67 Prime Miniszter Harold Wilson devalues the pound / In September, 1969, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins reports improvement in the trade figures /In May, 1969, Prime Minister Harold Wilson comments on murmurings of unrest in the Labour Party and confirms the "he is going on". [Various]
B2A U. S. soldier describes Vietcong tactyics in Vietnam in March, 1967 / Actuality report of the overrunning of the Saigon radio station by Vietcong during the Tet offensive in February, 1968 / Robert Kennedy on 8.2.68 speaks of his doubts about the war in Vietnam / President Lyndon Johnson on 31.3.68 states that he will not accept democratic nominastion for another term / President Richard Nixon, inaugurated on 20.1.69, offers his terms to North Vietnam for American withfrawal from South Vietnam. [Various]
B3Actuality Chinese Red Guards song during the Great Cultural Revolution in January, 1967 / A Czech citizen appeals to the world "not to forget Czechoslovakia" on 21.8.68 / General Gowon, Nigerian Head of State criticises supporters of the breakaway state of Biafra on 31.8.68 / General Moshe Dayan, Israeli Minister of Defence, talks about Egyptian fighting spirit after Israel's victory in the six-day war in June, 1967. [Various]
B4Actuality riots in Northern Ireland in September, 1969 / At the end of August, 1969, Home Secretary James Callaghan visits Northern Ireland and offers help with their problems / Mr. Enoch Powell brings out the problem of racial unease in Britain in a speech in April, 1968 / Mr. Edward Heath, leader of the Conservative party, dismisses Mr. Powell from the Shadow Cabinetr on 21.4.68 / Actuality report of race riots in Detroit in July, 1967 / Rap Brown, militant black leader, talks to a reporter during the Detriot riots in July, 1967 / Dr. Martin Luther King, negro civil rights leader, is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on 4.4.68. [Various]
B5President John Kennedy in his inauguration address on 20-.1.61 says "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" / Eye witness account of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on 22.11.63 / Part of Edward Kennedy's address at his brother, R0obert's, funeral, on 8.6.68. Edward Kennedy, in a television statement on 25.7 69 to the American people after the accidental death bt drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne, asks "whether some awful curse did hand over the Kennedys" / Richard Dimbleby describes part of Sir Winston Churchill's funeral voyage on 30.1.65 from Tower Bridge. [Various]
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Other versions

I have the title track on these releases:
[books]0-7211-5765-7The young ones - Bachelor boys
[books]1-85227-427-1Doctor Who - 30th anniversary timeframe

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A series of LP discs based on BBC Schools Radio Series and general service programmes relevant to work in primary or secondary schools and in colleges.

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