The Daily Mail (London, England), October 1st, 2005
Byline: NIGEL JONES What was snoek and who were the spivs? The BBC drama, Our Hidden Lives, probes the smog of the 1940s to bring those forgotten years to life. It was the era before Elvis. Before the Beatles, miniskirts, Mini cars and motorways. It was the period after the Blitz, the Battle of Britain and the peaceful American invasion that brought U.S. chewing gum, nylons and a dance called the jitterbug. Half a century on, the late 1940s and early 1950s seem, as a new BBC series dubs it, The Lost Decade - a forgotten blur of boredom, sandwiched between World War II and the Swinging Sixtie...
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