About this podcast
You probably think you know what life was like in Britain after the war. But what myths do we tell ourselves about the pre-digital world? From coal to contraception and ID cards to school beatings, Ros Taylor delves into the truth about British postwar life in Jam Tomorrow. From the makes of Oh God, What Now?
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Episodes
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- Jam Tomorrow has moved! · 3 min · Season 3 Episode 8Ros Taylor here with an important message. Jam Tomorrow has MOVED — and it’s now called MORE JAM TOMORROW It’s super easy to subscribe to the new feed. Just search for MORE JAM…
- Welsh Nationalism: Cymru am byth · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 7What does it mean to be Welsh? The writer Jan Morris said Wales was ‘a distinctly separate and often vehement idea’. But what is that idea? Do you need to understand Welsh to…
- Ugandan Migration: 90 Days to Leave · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 6The expulsion of Asians from Uganda in 1972 was brutal. Twenty eight thousand refugees arrived in Britain. The government scrambled to find homes and jobs for them. Not…
- North Sea Oil: Hit the gas · 43 min · Season 3 Episode 5In 1969, three kilometres under the North Sea, drillers found something that would change Britain completely. It would transform us into an oil-producing nation, fuel…
- Women’s Football: Kicking back · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 4The Lionesses’ Euro victory captivated English football fans – but this success was once unimaginable. In 1921, the English Football Association banned women from playing on any…
- Rationing: Milk and no honey · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 3Mock cream. Lord Woolton Pie. For 14 years the government put draconian restrictions on how much Britons could eat. Each meal had to be carefully planned and every scrap of food…
- Concorde: Feeling supersonic · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 2Some say it was the greatest ever feat of European engineering. A few even think that we wouldn’t have joined the European Economic Community without it. Others complained it ate…
- The Green Belt: Fields forever? · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 1The Green Belt is a powerful symbol of rural England — and Labour knows it. The new government says it wants to build on unlovely bits of green belts. A lot of people don’t like…
- Women’s magazines: Dreams on paper · 45 min · Season 2 Episode 9In their heyday women’s magazines sold 12 million copies a week. And at their best, these magazines changed women’s lives. They advised, they inspired, they gave us a glimpse of…
- Suez: The end of an empire · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 8When it comes to intervention in the Middle East, there is one word that sums up British hubris. And that word is Suez. But did Britain learn from one of our most infamous…
- This way out: Decriminalising homosexuality · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 7In our latest look into postwar history: decriminalising homosexuality. In 1967 — for the first time in more than 400 years — two men over 21 were legally allowed to have sex, in…
- Coal: The Pits and the Pendulum · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 6Coal: filthy, dangerous, and vital to Britain’s economy — but not any more. What did coal mining really mean to people? And why is coal so key to the biggest issues in politics —…
- National Service: Not at ease · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 5National service has become part of the mythology of a braver, stronger Britain, where young men did their duty for their country and ended up having a damn good time doing it…
- Corporal Punishment: ill disciplines · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 4Swish… thwack. After the war, one British tradition continued unabated: beating children in schools. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that it was completely outlawed. Why was the…
- The Marshall Plan: Uncle Sam to the rescue · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 3After the War, Britain was broke and broken – even broker than France. America was faced with a stark choice: invest billions in a shattered Europe or watch its citizens go…
- Ten Pound Poms: Did the Australian dream pay off for British migrants? · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 2Ros Taylor’s exploration of Britain’s postwar identity crisis continues. After the War, Britain was broke and broken. Between 1947 and 1981 over a million Britons left for a new…
- Contraception: Where there’s a pill, there’s a way · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 1A new fortnightly series of Ros Taylor’s exploration of the post-War promises Britain made to itself… and whether they were kept. In this edition: the quest for cheap…
- Podmasters presents a brand new podcast - This Is Not A Drill · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 8From the producers of Jam Tomorrow - a brand new show looking at the tectonic shifts in global power occurring right before our eyes, called This Is Not A Drill. Presented by…
- I.D. Cards: Show me who you are · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 7A Jam Tomorrow special: Identity cards. What happens when principles come up against panic? When a high minded determination not to collect private info runs up against a society…
- Choice: The buck stops with you · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 6Season finale: Since the War, Britons experienced an explosion of choice in food, services, work, utilities, even belief and sexuality. But did ever-increasing choices really…
