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Lucy Robinson responds to your questions on Britain in the decade of Thatcherism, Live Aid, Bananarama and the rise of the yuppie <\/p>

By Spencer Mizen\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Sunday, 09 July 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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It was the decade in which the Aids pandemic transformed our relationship with sex and sexuality, MTV transformed the way we consume music, Princess Diana transformed the relationship between royalty and the media and Margaret Thatcher transformed the political landscape. In our latest Everything you wanted to know episode, Spencer Mizen puts listener questions on 1980s Britain to historian and author Lucy Robinson.<\/p>\n\n

Lucy Robinson is the author of Now That\u2019s What I Call a History of the 1980s: Pop Culture and Politics in the Decade That Shaped Modern Britain<\/em> (Manchester University Press, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n