The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook - 1. The Sound of the Crowd

[@prd1073]

So many memories of the decade I started as 12.

[@CommonSwindler]

This might as well be removed. It’s basically just a slideshow without sound.

[@mikekaraoke]

What is the intro to the song at 45:21, Mind gone blank

[@garymagan]

The song is Everybody by Madonna :)

[@valentinedeath8213]

Can anyone give me a quick explanation why there is no audio? I watched this video a few years ago, and it was fine. Come back and no sound. Is it the BBC muting it? I have tried a UK VPN too. Would be really grateful if someone could tell me how to get sound, thank you.

[@jiggersotoole7823]

Copyright issue probably

[@sam_ferdinand]

There's no sound!

[@davecannon334]

WOT NO SOUND ???

[@ianclarke4519]

There's no sound on this

[@russc8677]

"The average NEXT customer came in to buy one item, but left with five". Yeah, but they only BOUGHT one...

[@stevel7977]

Good part on Brookside but are the Grants any happier in their new home and have such people who have sold their council house really left the estate behind? or have they just been conned by Thatcher into selling off the public silverware for less upkeep from the government and public purse?

[@KKTR3]

Steve L London organised crime fell wage snatches fell because of the council house selling off

[@stevel7977]

Homelessness rose sharply in the 1980's, as well as a demand for adequate housing and the redevelopment of existing council properties, demands that were left unfulfilled as many estates plunged into decay . At the end of the day Thatcher's government didn't like paying for people to have council houses if they could be sold off instead. As for organised crime that is more do with the police i.e. corruption, inefficiency and I think overall the crime rates in Britain between 1979 and the early mid 90's were generally very high. Just look at the housing crisis of today if Thatcher/Major had built more council properties things would not be the mess they are now.

[@stevel7977]

If selling off council houses worked how come there is a housing crisis now, compare the amount of council houses available with the demand, it doesn't make sense. Also if people can't get a council house or flat they can easily end up being exploited by ruthless landlords. It might work for those that can afford to buy and run a house it doesn't for others. In my experience there is or was no such thing as good little Thatcher/tory voters, its all about them and their interests and stuff everyone else.

[@alexiasummer7475]

There no sound

[@gcooper642]

I bet the quality of Next was better back then. It's just tat now. I can't remember the last time I actually spent money in Next. I just find their stuff so generic. Clothes and home.

[@trainrover]

Huh? Sound of the Crowd? Many pop music clips here are of singles that did all of their charting during the late-70s there. Therefore, I suppose the high turnover of pop must`ve become a trend of the past as the `80s progressed there.

[@stevel7977]

The founding push and change of social and economic consumerism isn't necessarily as radical or inventive as we are led to think. Firstly, shopping centres to replace factories/industrial works is more of a move to make the councils and building developers as rich and as quickly as possible whilst ensuring plenty of debt ridden consumers owing more than they should on credit cards that they should never have been given in the first place, at massive returns for the lenders and being spent on junk the consumers don't even need. By 1989 personal debt was extremely high if not the highest that it had ever been, is that a good economy? No, certainly not for the individual but isn't the individual what the eighties is supposed to be all about? Secondly the so called 'service industry' is insecure, underpaid and unlike the true industries of the past lacks identity. Thirdly if consumerism is about choice then how come there's a NEXT, Tesco, Sports Direct everywhere you go? rather than making us individuals its made us all exactly the same!

[@stevel7977]

Just Watched Sound of the Crowd (part 1 the 80's Dominic Sandbrook). Main ideas throughout are consumerism and individualism, strange intro with Delia Smith putting across the dual ideas of domesticity and aspiration, sorry but I actually saw those ideas better put across in the 1970's comedy whatever happened to the likely lads. To look at domesticity in the 80's firstly the word divide comes to mind as in the cosy techno fitted middle class kitchen where Delia is talking from to the reality of many homes in the 80's being torn apart by unemployment, drugs and marital breakdown and those that are left behind who simply can't afford the appliances being shoved down their throats by a consumerist outlook. To look at aspiration the word cynical comes to mind, yes there was change and some wanted this but for many in Britain rather than being able to embrace change as people were told, the reality could easily be redundancy or unemployment, a caution that was now being openly abandoned by the government despite being a founding centre of post war Britain to provide employment and for it to be secure.

[@Flowmotion1000]

Good programme but it struck me just how awful 80's music was - that tinny electro snare and those dumb tunes.

[@rezon8526]

Are you serious? the 80's was the best decade ever for music. Think your forgetting how diverse 80's music was, there was some real great music in the 80's...tinny electro snare and dumb tunes lol. You haven't got a clue wtf your on about.

[@stevel7977]

As for all that total crap about 'britishness' how come more and more of our companies were privatised and ultimately owned by foreign firms? how come during the 1980's more and more items from toys to clothing were made abroad instead? and as for owning a metro I think most people would have preferred a Golf or at least a new Astra or MK 3 Escort. The only decent metro was the MG version and they had to call the standard car the 'mini metro' to boost sales as originally it was possibly going to replace the mini but surprise surprise by 1990 AUSTIN was gone and swallowed up by Honda/Rover. (1986 takeover, that's not very British either) To look back to the 70's, if it was so bad how come we laughed so much and if they 80's or beyond was so good how come there were so many tears? From a personal point of view in Southampton the hideous West Quay shopping centre stands on the site where my Dad's former work was, where before it being demolished he was made redundant from. Quite simply consumerism is because we are told, we are manipulated and we are allowed whether we can afford it or not.

[@richardevans3253]

What about Mark Thatchers alleged Coup in Equatorial Guinea. .Dominic Sandbrook 'Daily Mail Historian' was nine years of age when the miners strike happened . His take on the history of the 1980's is inaccurate .