Episode 4
Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. In the swinging 60s, the class experience bricklaying, typing, cooking and even a spot of Mini driving.
In this episode, our time-travelling class arrives in 1960. With a brand new decade, comes a new school for our pupils - the secondary modern. Leaving behind the rigidity and formality of the postwar grammar, they are now training for a vocational future. As they experience more hands-on lessons than ever before, our modern students and teachers will find out whether the 60s were really so swinging, after all.
Their first lesson sees the boys and girls separated once again for subjects deemed suitable for each. For the girls this means an introduction to typewriting, and for the boys, bricklaying. As the girls comes to terms with the challenges of carriage-returns and speed typing, to the fast pace of the William Tell overture, the boys attempt to tinkle and tease their way around a trowel, and building a simple wall presents a unique challenge for these modern pupils.
In the secondary modern, though, there was no escaping the basics, as our class discover in maths. One of the few lessons in which boys and girls were mixed, there is widespread confusion as they try to master the complex art of the slide rule - no calculators here! Attempting to get to grips with this cutting-edge technology, they take some time out to prank the teacher and commit the age old trick of defacing the overhead projector.
In 1963, there is rebellion brewing as the girls are told they will be cooking a meal in their very own purpose-built flat. Sampling the menu is their male teacher, acting as a stand-in husband. The recipes include an intoxicating mix of celery boats piped full of paprika and cream cheese, devilled eggs and kippers in butter. And if that is not enough to put them off their lunch, school dinner in the 1960s serves them a hearty 1,500-calorie meal of mince roly-poly, cabbage and mash, spotted dick and of course, the obligatory lumpy school custard. While the girls have been slaving in front of a hot stove, the boys have been learning a skill deemed crucial for male school leavers. Behind the wheel of a Mini, they have been learning to drive for the first time. Watch out Lewis Hamilton!
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Driving Club
Duration: 01:58
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:04The Shadows
F.B.I
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00:05The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Take Five
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00:06The Merseybeats
Wishin' and Hopin'
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00:07Laurel Aitken
Life
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00:09The Crickets
I Fought The Law
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00:10Booker T. & The M.G.'s
Green Onions (feat. Steve Cropper)
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00:10Booker T. & The M.G.'s
Green Onions
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00:12Eric Coates
Calling All Workers (Worker's Playtime' Theme Tune)
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00:14Philharmonia Orchestra
The Lone Ranger Theme
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00:15Cliff Richard & The Shadows
Please Don't Tease
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00:17Barry Mann
Who Put The Bomp
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00:17Ray Charles
Hit The Road Jack
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00:19Dee Dee Sharp
Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)
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00:20Cliff Richard & The Shadows
In The Country
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00:25The Shadows
Man Of Mystery
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00:29Johnny Tillotson
Poetry In Motion
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00:29Johnny Tillotson
Poetry In Motion
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00:30Johnny Cash
Hey Good Lookin'
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00:31The Mindbenders
Um Um Um Um Um Um
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00:33Chuck Berry
No Particular Place To Go
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00:36The Who
My Generation
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00:38Four Tops
Reach Out I'll Be There
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00:40The Beach Boys
When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)
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00:41Lonnie Donegan
World Cup Willie
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00:42The Spencer Davis Group
Keep On Running
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00:43Chad & Jeremy
Willow Weep For Me
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00:44Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass & The Tijuana Brass
A Banda
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00:45The Bob Crewe Generation
Music To Watch Girls By
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00:45The Shangri鈥怢as
Leader Of The Pack
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00:46Barry Gray
Thunderbirds
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00:47The Shadows
Tennessee Waltz (Alternative Version)
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00:47James Brown
Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)
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00:48The Troggs
Wild Thing
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00:48James Brown
Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)
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00:50Toots & The Maytals
54-46 Was My Number
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00:53Nico
These Days
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00:54Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Dancing In The Street
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00:54Paul Jones
Aquarius
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00:54Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
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00:55Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Dancing In The Street
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00:57Roy Orbison
Yesterday's Child
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00:56The Kinks
You Really Got Me
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00:58T. Rex
Children of the Revolution
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Sara Cox |
| Presenter | Polly Russell |
| Aerial Photographer | Aerovue |
| Camera Operator | Gary Hawkey |
| Camera Operator | Nik Porter |
| Sound Supervisor | Bal Rayat |
| Sound | Paul Taylor |
| Lighting | Key Light Hire Ltd |
| On-line editing | Dan Thomas |
| Colourist | Chris Short |
| Re-recording mixer | Paul Donovan |
| Production Designer | Peter Gordon |
| Art Director | Rosie Westwood |
| Art Director | Hannah Newcombe |
| Graphic Designer | Leonie Tucker |
| Costume designer | Mark Ferguson |
| Makeup Artist | Veronica McAleer |
| Runner | Oliver Comer |
| Runner | Holly Beaumont-Wilkes |
| Runner | Chantelle Stewart |
| Runner | Ellie Davies |
| Assistant Producer | Pamela McIntyre |
| Assistant Producer | Rajveer Sihota |
| Casting | Stephanie Wessell |
| Casting | Claire Parry |
| Production Secretary | Sophie James |
| Production Coordinator | Ross Stanley |
| Production Coordinator | Jade George |
| Production Manager | Jeanne Clenet |
| Line Producer | Emily Assael |
| Producer | Sophie Wogden |
| Executive Producer | Emily Shields |
| Editor | Mark Fox |
| Editor | Ben King |
| Editor | Joanna Lincoln |
| Second Unit Director | Khalid Khan |
| Director | Kate Taunton |
| Series Producer | Christina Nutter |
| Series Producer | Morgana Pugh |
| Production Company | Wall to Wall Media |