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  1. 2000

    50/50 Concorde crash lands in France and an InterCity 225 derails at Hatfield.

  2. 1989

    39/50 Stock Aitken Waterman, the Hillsborough disaster and the end of the Berlin Wall.

  3. 1988

    38/50 Acid house raves arrive, Bros hit the charts and the Lockerbie bombing dominates headlines

  4. 1987

    37/50 Stormy weather, tragedy in Hungerford and the Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes.

  5. 1986

    36/50 The year of Westland, Wapping and Red Wedge.

  6. 1985

    35/50 Radio 2's audio journey reaches 1985, a year of Live Aid and Back to the Future.

  7. 1984

    34/50 The year of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Band Aid and the miners' strike.

  8. 1983

    33/50 The year of breakfast television and Michael Jackson's Thriller.

  9. 1982

    32/50 Radio 2's audio journey through five decades of triumph, tragedy and trivia reaches 1982.

  10. 1981

    31/50 Riots in Brixton and Toxteth, the New Romantics and skirt-ripping at Eurovision.

  11. 1980

    30/50 The year of Coe v Ovett, JR and Jona Lewie and the death of John Lennon.

  12. 1979

    29/50 Radio 2's audio journey through five decades reaches 1979.

  13. 1978

    28/50 The year of Grease and Sid Vicious, Baker Street, Wuthering Heights and YMCA.

  14. 1977

    27/50 The year of the silver jubilee, Star Wars and the death of Elvis.

  15. 1976

    26/50 The year of the great drought, the American Bicentennial, Denis Healey and Jimmy Carter.

  16. 1975

    25/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1975, the year of Bohemian Rhapsody, Kraftwerk and the Wailers.

  17. 1974

    24/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1974: a year of streaking, Wombling and the three-day week.

  18. 1974

    24/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1974: a year of streaking, Wombling, and the three-day week.

  19. 1973

    23/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1973 - The Exorcist, three-day weeks, Watergate and Tubular Bells.

  20. 1972

    22/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1972 - unemployment, power cuts, glitter music and Monty Python.

  21. 1971

    21/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1971 - goodbye Beatles, hello Margaret Thatcher.

  22. 1970

    20/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1970, with Apollo 13's 'problem' and the death of Jimi Hendrix.

  23. 1969

    19/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1969, the year of the moon landing and Woodstock.

  24. 1968

    18/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1968, a turbulent year of assassination, protest and invasion.

  25. 1967

    17/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1967, the year of Swinging London, Flower Power and Radio 1.

  26. 1966

    16/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1966, the year of psychedelia and England's World Cup triumph.

  27. 1965

    15/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1965, when Winston Churchill died and there was war in Vietnam.

  28. 1964

    14/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1964, when mods and rockers battled on the beaches.

  29. 1963

    13/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1963, the year of JFK's shooting and That Was the Week That Was.

  30. 1962

    12/50 Jeremy Vine introduces 1962 - The Beatles, Elvis Presley and the Cuban missile crisis.

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