Timeshift: Timeshift: 1960 - The Year of the North

SYNOPSIS

Andrew Martin explores how the North of England asserted itself as a force for culture during the 1960s, abandoning working-class stereotypes to help liberate the arts in Britain as a whole. The programme reveals how writers such as Alan Sillitoe, Shelagh Delaney, Stan Barstow and Tony Warren gave voice to a new generation, and proved that humour and style could be found outside swinging London.