Narrator / Host (mostly Dominic Sandbrook)

Well, on The Rest is History, we only do the very, very biggest and most important historical moments, don't we? And actually, so he's also got a crucifix and a kind of dog collar, leather dog collar. And you're reading...

Well, on The Rest is History, we only do the very, very biggest and most important historical moments, don't we? And actually, so he's also got a crucifix and a kind of dog collar, leather dog collar. And you're reading...

eccentric as it was was too good because if you watch him on youtube yeah he's worse isn't he his reading of shelly it actually improves a bit it does get better as he gets in but when he starts he's clearly i mean god he's quite young you know they're in their 20s quarter of a million people it's a bizarre situation to be in he's clearly very nervous and he makes a dreadful mess of it so he's getting all the words wrong and stumbling and stuff and and all of this

eccentric as it was was too good because if you watch him on youtube yeah he's worse isn't he his reading of shelly it actually improves a bit it does get better as he gets in but when he starts he's clearly i mean god he's quite young you know they're in their 20s quarter of a million people it's a bizarre situation to be in he's clearly very nervous and he makes a dreadful mess of it so he's getting all the words wrong and stumbling and stuff and and all of this

eccentric as it was was too good because if you watch him on youtube yeah he's worse isn't he his reading of shelly it actually improves a bit it does get better as he gets in but when he starts he's clearly i mean god he's quite young you know they're in their 20s quarter of a million people it's a bizarre situation to be in he's clearly very nervous and he makes a dreadful mess of it so he's getting all the words wrong and stumbling and stuff and and all of this

However, the press coverage was bonkers. That observer, from far off, you might have supposed that this great gathering had come to hear a famed religious leader or some Eastern mystic. At the end, they release all these butterflies. They're all dead, aren't they? They got terrible complaints. The butterflies had all suffocated in the boxes. Disastrous.

However, the press coverage was bonkers. That observer, from far off, you might have supposed that this great gathering had come to hear a famed religious leader or some Eastern mystic. At the end, they release all these butterflies. They're all dead, aren't they? They got terrible complaints. The butterflies had all suffocated in the boxes. Disastrous.

However, the press coverage was bonkers. That observer, from far off, you might have supposed that this great gathering had come to hear a famed religious leader or some Eastern mystic. At the end, they release all these butterflies. They're all dead, aren't they? They got terrible complaints. The butterflies had all suffocated in the boxes. Disastrous.

The concert itself was very bad, by all accounts. They're all very nervous. Mick Taylor is making his debut. He's terrified. However, as a public spectacle, a huge occasion, a great success, and as with every great 60s occasion, a mad column afterwards in The Guardian. So Richard Gott. He's a KGB agent, isn't he? He was a KGB agent of influence, I believe.

The concert itself was very bad, by all accounts. They're all very nervous. Mick Taylor is making his debut. He's terrified. However, as a public spectacle, a huge occasion, a great success, and as with every great 60s occasion, a mad column afterwards in The Guardian. So Richard Gott. He's a KGB agent, isn't he? He was a KGB agent of influence, I believe.

The concert itself was very bad, by all accounts. They're all very nervous. Mick Taylor is making his debut. He's terrified. However, as a public spectacle, a huge occasion, a great success, and as with every great 60s occasion, a mad column afterwards in The Guardian. So Richard Gott. He's a KGB agent, isn't he? He was a KGB agent of influence, I believe.

He gave my first book, Never Had It So Good, a disobliging review. OK, well, let's diss him. There wasn't enough about the Cuban Revolution in it. And people in Britain cared about nothing so much as the Cuban Revolution.

He gave my first book, Never Had It So Good, a disobliging review. OK, well, let's diss him. There wasn't enough about the Cuban Revolution in it. And people in Britain cared about nothing so much as the Cuban Revolution.

He gave my first book, Never Had It So Good, a disobliging review. OK, well, let's diss him. There wasn't enough about the Cuban Revolution in it. And people in Britain cared about nothing so much as the Cuban Revolution.

No. He said, what's all this nonsense about people going to garden centres and Kingsley Amis? I want the Cuban Revolution. Anyway, he said of this concert, it was a great and epoch-making event in British social history.

No. He said, what's all this nonsense about people going to garden centres and Kingsley Amis? I want the Cuban Revolution. Anyway, he said of this concert, it was a great and epoch-making event in British social history.

No. He said, what's all this nonsense about people going to garden centres and Kingsley Amis? I want the Cuban Revolution. Anyway, he said of this concert, it was a great and epoch-making event in British social history.

Anyone who wants to understand the present political malaise in Britain or who wants to have an inkling what Britain will be like in 10 years' time should have been at the park on Saturday, he said. And of course, when you do the maths, 10 years on from this concert is almost exactly the point when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister.

Anyone who wants to understand the present political malaise in Britain or who wants to have an inkling what Britain will be like in 10 years' time should have been at the park on Saturday, he said. And of course, when you do the maths, 10 years on from this concert is almost exactly the point when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister.

Anyone who wants to understand the present political malaise in Britain or who wants to have an inkling what Britain will be like in 10 years' time should have been at the park on Saturday, he said. And of course, when you do the maths, 10 years on from this concert is almost exactly the point when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister.