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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Back to the 80s: How pop culture shaped our world
Description: Rubik's cubes, leg warmers and Walkmen. How does the pop culture of a decade define it? Looking beyond clichés and caricatures, how was culture an agent of social change in the 1980s?Dr. Kasia Tomasiewicz speaks to Dr. Lucy Robinson, author of Now That's What I Call a History of the 1980s, to discuss photograph of Diana’s legs, Roland Rat and political power of popstars.
“Nostalgia assumes you had something positive to look back on.”
“Historians in the 80s start thinking, what is the role of how we talk about w...