Melvyn Bragg explores The Art Of 1968: the role of writers, actors and musicians in the street battles that marked 1968 and looks at whether they helped to change western society and culture.
In March 1968, a huge demonstration protesting against the Vietnam War marched towards the American Embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square led by Vanessa Redgrave and Tariq Ali. Leo Burley‘s film also explores the art and music at the heart of the violent protests in Paris, Prague and Chicago in 1968.
Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy
'Cause the summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy...
Street Fighting Man - The Rolling Stones (1968)
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know, we all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know, we all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Revolution - The Beatles (1968)
Interviews with Vanessa Redgrave, Tariq Ali, Olivier Todd and Tom Stoppard. This South Bank Show also includes extracts from two never before broadcast interviews from 1968: one with Mick Jagger, shortly after he attended the rally in Grosvenor Square, and another with an angry John Lennon as he responds to attacks from the far left at the end of 1968.
Presented and edited by Melvyn Bragg
Produced and directed by Leo Burley.
Sunday 16 March 2008 11:15pm - 12:15am on ITV1
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