In 1968 Joan Bakewell was one of the few female TV presenters, fronting the BBC's Late Night Line-Up and addressing daily the most pressing issues of the time. In this film she looks back at the events that led to what for many became the defining event of that extraordinarily turbulent year - the protests in France in May. While the rest of the world was in turmoil, with the Vietnam War causing increasing dissent, the Civil Rights movement growing in intensity and young people finding new ways of expressing themselves, as 1968 began it seemed to France's president, General de Gaulle, that his country was immune to the kind of protest sweeping the rest of the world.
Joan Bakewell
Presenter
Race d'Ep!
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Badinter contre la peine de mort, le procès Patrick Henry
Danielle Mitterrand, une certaine idée de la France
La Ve, une constitution sur mesure ?
The Revenge of Bernadette Chirac
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21 rue la Boétie
La Rafle du Vel d'Hiv, la honte et les larmes
When a City Rises
French Lessons
Une vie en transit, ou l'illusion du provisoire
