The 1952 Show

Len is joined by Pam Ayres to reminisce about playing on bomb sites and kiss-chase in the playground, as the programme looks at what it was really like to be a child in the 1950s. And was marriage in the 50s all it was cracked up to be? The secret ways disgruntled housewives let off steam are revealed.

Fifties pop star Marty Wilde joins Len to reminisce as they hear from Teddy Boys and Girls on what it was like to rock the night away in their blue suede shoes, and there is a look at some classic 50s household gadgets. Some sweet three-part harmony chat is provided by the Beverley Sisters. See you later, alligator!

Arlene Philips joins Len in a quickstep down memory lane as they reminisce about steel drums and cool jazz, exploring how music was just one of the ways new immigrants added much-needed colour and gaiety to the drab post-war years. Not that you might be able to see much of it through the deadly smog which invaded the streets of London in the winter of 1952. And was the 1950s policeman really like Dixon of Dock Green?

Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman is magically joined by Paul Daniels to take a look at the 1950s, the decade that made Britain what it is today. They see how British food in the 50s went from 'ho hum' to 'yum yum'. Plus an ex-National Service squaddie remembers those endless days of square-bashing and missing your mum, while Roger Banister reveals what it was like to break the 4-minute mile. Wonderful archive and great stories - all told by you!

Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman takes a look at the 1950s, a decade when people were told they had 'never had it so good'. Two 1950s petrol-heads agree, with the British car industry in its heyday. The Debs were on their way out, but the new Jet Set was on their way in with the launch of the Comet. Plus actress Annette Crosbie joins Len on the sofa to reminisce about her dad's balsa wood caravan.