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title: "Made in the 80s: The Decade That Shaped Our World"
description: Through the eyes of a handful of Brits, this is the story of how the country was forged from division and conflict, only to reinvent itself and take the rest of the world with it.
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# Made in the 80s: The Decade That Shaped Our World
Release Date: 24 Oct '22 on Channel 4
Length: 3x48'
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Through the eyes of a handful of Brits, this is the extraordinary story of how the country was forged from the fires of division and conflict, only to reinvent itself and take the rest of the world with it.
Part 1: Cold War
With the threat of nuclear Armageddon dominating politics and seeping into the country’s psyche, a handful of Brits influence the Cold War in ways no-one could have imagined.
From the ad men who shaped the tastes of the nation before triumphing in Hollywood, to the women who face down the American military and a spy who saves us from oblivion, Part One pieces together the story of how Britain’s internal divisions influenced the course of world history.
Part 2: Culture Wars
From the flames of conflict and scars of social division, a cultural explosion changes not just the attitudes of the country, but the world.
As unrest and a mysterious pandemic grip the country, nobody is happy with the status quo particularly those who feel excluded by its old values. New stars, new art, and even a new TV channel is born with risk in its DNA. From Hanif Kureishi to Holly Johnson Part Two charts the meteoric rise of the disrupters who put a very different Britain on the world map.
Part 3: Silicon Brittania
When Thatcher’s Britain replaces coal with computers, Britain’s tech-driven reboot triumphs thanks to university geeks and a bedroom army of games designers.
The inside story of how some very clever minds, a slice of luck and a bit of outright deception shaped the world we live in today. In Cambridge a chance discovery leads to the creation of a chip so powerful it found its way into billions of mobile phones and perhaps even saved Apple from going under. A new generation of computer-literate kids build the foundations for an industry now worth $235 billion and Tim Berners Lee stakes a claim for the biggest discovery of all.
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Release Date: 24 Oct '22 on Channel 4
Length: 3x48'
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**Director** Simon Gilchrist
**Assistant Producer** Pandora Monnas
**Executive** **Producer** James Rogan
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