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The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window

By Rob Young
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By Rob Young
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A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film from the late 50s-late 80s. A cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation’s visual self-portrait in technicolour detail.

I found myself thinking more and more about how for the post-war generation, the television had replaced the village storyteller…

Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young’s main source of stories was the wooden box with the g...

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