5. Defining the Decades

Stuart Maconie welcomes another three contestants to the My Generation quiz, which focuses on the events and culture of different decades within living memory.

They will each be answering questions on their own favourite decade - which could be the one they grew up in, or one they know plenty about for some other reason.

They then also have to answer on a different decade, in which they were significantly younger, or older, or perhaps not even born. Stuart hopes to find out just how much the generations know about one another's heroes, heroines and heritage.

If you remember the boxing match nicknamed the 'Rumble in the Jungle', the first ever female Speaker of the House of Commons, or the writer Colin Welland telling Hollywood 'the British are coming', there's a chance you'll know the answers to at least some of Stuart Maconie's questions in the multi-generational quiz.

There'll be plenty of news clips, TV themes, extracts from pop songs and familiar voices from different decades.

The questions cover popular culture, sport, politics and world events, technological innovations and social history.

Whatever your age, you may find yourself surprised at some of the things you know that the contestants don't.

Producer: Paul Bajoria

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2020.