What are you watching on TV right now?

[Odds]

Breakdown: 1975 - narrated by Jodie Foster no less, this 90 minute documentary takes a look back at a pivotal year in American life. After the Watergate scandal and the end of the Vietnam War left people at a loss to explain how it had all gone wrong so quickly since the heady optimism of the Kennedy administration.

I had no idea about any of that as we toured America for the first time in the Summer of '75, in a big yellow gas-guzzling Lincoln Continental. It was a world away from a quiet middle-class upbringing, and opened my eyes to a host of influences that remain with me to this day: especially the music.

 

[Mottie]

It’s a wonderful life.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

It’s a wonderful life.

Snap! A really good, old film, and does leave you thinking - how the world would be so different, had you never been born.

I'm just giving 'Oppenheimer' another go, it failed to gel, the first time around

 

[crystal ball]

Snap! A really good, old film, and does leave you thinking - how the world would be so different, had you never been born.

I'm just giving 'Oppenheimer' another go, it failed to gel, the first time around

I watched Oppenheimer in November on a flight home from Japan which included a visit to Hiroshima, it seemed sort of appropriate