Viewpoint 23/06/26 …with TRE’s Giles Brown and his panel of guests

Tim Rich - If I Can Dream: The Life of Terry Venables ...with TRE's Giles Brown

In the summer of 1996, English football exploded into the public consciousness. ‘Football’s coming home’ echoed from car radios as the Three Lions came within a whisker of ending 30 years of hurt. At the centre of it all was manager Terry Venables, eventually denied glory in the most English fashion possible – by penalty shootout. Catch Giles live - 'Let's Talk' - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - from 10.00CET...on tre.radio [http://tre.radio/]

John L Williams - Heatwave...with TRE's Giles Brown

Before this blistering summer, Britain seemed stuck in the post-war era, a country where people were all in it together - as long as you were white, male and straight. In July, Tom Robinson writes a song called Glad to be Gay, and by August bank holiday, Black youth are making the police run for their lives in the almighty riot at the Notting Hill Carnival. But with the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson suddenly quitting, the pound sinking and the economy tanking, a restless immigrant population and increasing dissatisfaction in the old world order, the weather seemed to boil up the country to the point where the lid blows off. Catch Giles live - 'Let's Talk' - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - from 10.00CET...on tre.radio [http://tre.radio/]

Colin Kidd - Twilight of the Dons...with TRE's Giles Brown

Kidd describes the multiple important roles played by dons in World War II, the countercultural force of convert Catholicism and the strange phenomenon of Tory Marxism. He examines the dons’ attitudes towards America and France―as seen in their engagement in the debates over the Kennedy assassination and the awkward reception of Lévi-Strauss’s anthropology. When Oxbridge came under assault, it was first by a modernising, technocratic Left in the early 1960s, then by student radicals in the late 1960s and finally by the Thatcherite Right―in whose rise, Kidd shows, some dons were complicit. As deference to Oxbridge intelligentsia declined, a reassessment of the place of dons in British public life began. Catch Giles live - 'Let's Talk' - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - from 10.00CET...on tre.radio [http://tre.radio/]

Molly Tie - Rebel Grrrls...with TRE's Giles Brown

Molly Tie examines what the movement has meant to millions of fans, setting their experiences within a wider cultural and political landscape. What is it like to be a woman at a gig? Which bands and songs truly reflect the female experience in a male-dominated space? And how does our connection to alternative music change when powerful figures face allegations of abuse? Catch Giles live - 'Let's Talk' - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - from 10.00CET...on tre.radio [http://tre.radio/]

Charlie Owen - One Night on the Somme...with TRE's Giles Brown

On 1 July 1916, the Lonsdale Pals Battalion went into action with thousands of other British troops and were massacred. Eight days later, the shattered and traumatised survivors were assigned to undertake another attack across no-mans-land that would inevitably lead to more deaths and injuries. They ensured that the attack failed and the entire Battalion was subsequently publicly disgraced as part of a policy to ignore the growing problem of shellshock. This humiliation was covered up for over 100 years. Catch Giles live - 'Let's Talk' - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - from 10.00CET...on tre.radio [http://tre.radio/]