May 68: How and Why France Dreamed Up Another Revolution

Muriel wonders why the May 68 uprisings happened so expansively and explosively in the France of De Gaulle and not in Howard Wilson's Britain. She takes Suzanne back to a time of flying cobblestones and bourgeois Maoist students on the barricades. What triggered the events, what fanned the fire? How much of a revolution was May 68, really? What political and social fracture has it left in French society? And what is its legacy in terms of imagery and myth? Glorious utopia of social break-down? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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