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The End of the Long Hot Summer
Episode 5 of 5
As the summer of 1976 draws to a close, the music press brings a chaotic new movement to the attention of Britain's alienated youth. Read by Dean Rehman.
Writer John L Williams remembers the stifling summer that loosened societal norms and laid the foundations for modern-day Britain.
"Just six baking hot weeks after they first played to 40 people, the Sex Pistols returned to an audience of at least three times as many. When they played, the violence of the music swiftly provoked actual violence in the crowd."
Read by Dean Rehman
Abridged by Rosemary Goring
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
A BBC Audio Scotland production for BBC Radio 4.
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Fri 19 Jun 202611:45
BBC Radio 4
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