Soundscape Of 1969

The final year of the swinging 60s was one of contrasts; from the optimism of Woodstock and the 'giant leap for mankind', to the violence and despair of Vietnam and Londonderry. Meanwhile TV went colour, the Concorde and the Jumbo Jet were both unveiled and John Lennon went to bed.

Johnnie Walker introduces Radio 2's annual soundscape from 40 years ago. The audio collage of the news, music and media of the time includes the debut of Monty Python, the triumph of Tony Jacklin and De Gaulle's 'au revoir'. There was a Bad Moon Rising and Something In The Air...

Running order and songs:

All archive clips first broadcast in 1969 and were taken from BBC Archives.

All newspaper extracts were taken from contemporaneous sources and read by Bill Bingham.

* clips from The Woodstock Festival

Radio 1 jingle

Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air

President Nixon - extract from his inaugural address

News clip - Riots at the London School of Economics

Squatters interviewed by Malcolm Billings at 144 Piccadilly

Concord (then without its 'e') and the Boeing 747 (Jumbo Jet) launched

Zager & Evans - In TheYear 2525

Vietnam War - actuality and news reports

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love

News clip - Charles Manson's gang kills Sharan Tate at Roman Polanski's house

Continuity announcement - BBC One 'in colour

Trail - Take 3 Girls, a new series on BBC One

News clip - republican Bernadette Devlin elected MP for mid-Ulster aged 21

Bernadette Devlin speaks, gunfire and actuality from N Ireland

Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man

The Rolling Stones -Hyde Park concert following death of guitarist Brian Jones

News clip - Bogside, British troops

Soldier in Derry, Alec Douglas-Home (foreign secretary)

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising

Prince Charles Investiture

Radha Krishna Temple - Hare Krishna Mantra

Desmond Dekker & Aces - Israelites

Jimmy Young Show (Radios 1 & 2) - opening

Archies - Sugar Sugar

Jimmy Young Show recipe spot

News clip - Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman

Beatles - The Ballad of John & Yoko

News clip - John Lennon and Yoko Ono 'bed-in

John Lennon speaks in Amsterdam

Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace A Chance

Monty Python's Flying Circus - opening sequence from the first show on BBC Two

News clip - Radio licence abolished, TV licence raised

Tony Jacklin wins the Open - commentary by Renton Laidlaw

Cricket v West Indies - commentary by Brian Johnston

Ryder Cup - Tony Jacklin v Jack Nicklaus

Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer

News clip - Leeds United beat Arsenal to maintain their unbeaten run

Wimbledon - Ann Jones wins the Ladies' Final

Wimbledon - Rod Laver wins the Mens' Final

Monty Python's Flying Circus - 'Nudge Nudge' sketch featuring Eric Idle

Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'Aime.Moi Non Plus

Evangelist Billy Graham on moral decay

Billy Preston - That's The Way God Planned It

News clip - Senator Edward Kennedy in car accident on Chappaquiddick Island

Kennedy speaks about leaving the scene of an accident

Marvin Gaye - Too Busy Thinkin' 'Bout My Baby

Duncan Sandys - Conservative politician attacks the Labour government

Harold Wilson - Prime Minister defends Labour's record

General De Gaulle - French president resigns

Fairport Convention - Si Tu Dois Partir

News clip - John Peel refused service owing to long hair

Radio 1 Club trail

2001: A Space Odyssey Theme (Also Sprach Zarathustra)

David Bowie - Space Oddity

Apollo XI actuality

Nixon speaks to returning astronauts

*Country Joe McDonald - The 'Fish' Cheer

*Country Joe McDonald - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag

Vietnam War actuality

President Nixon on US troop withdrawal

*Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner

*Woodstock actuality - 'hey people, we gotta Times

Canned Heat - Going Up The Country

*Woodstock actuality - Chip Monck; 'experiment

*Woodstock actuality - rainstorm - crowd chant; 'no rain

*Santana - Soul Sacrifice

*Woodstock actuality - Chip Monck; 'brown acid

*Woodstock actuality - Grace Slick; 'whole lotta orange

*Woodstock actuality - John Morris; 'flat blue acid

*Woodstock actuality - 'bummer bummer

*Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends

*Woodstock actuality - Wavy Gravy; 'breakfast in bed for '400,000

Sly & The Family Stone - I Want To Take You Higher

*Woodstock actuality - Abbie Hoffman on John Sinclair

*Woodstock actuality - Country Joe; 'marijuana

*Woodstock actuality - Stephen Stills; 'scared

*Crosby, Sills & Nash - Suite Judy Blue Eyes

*Woodstock actuality - John Sebastian; 'far out, whole city

*Woodstock actuality - Stephen Stills; 'three days man

*John Sebastian - I Had A Dream

News clip - deaths at Altamont festival in California

Beatles - The End.

Johnnie Walker introduces an audio collage of news, music and media from 40 years ago.