The Living Room

The Living Room

S1 E2: Professor Brendan Walker's look at Britain since the 1950s focusses on the living room. A dramatic transformation reveals how science and technology banished the dark, formal, barely-used front room and gave us a bright, colourful beacon of 50s style that became a hub of family entertainment. Out with bulky sofas made of hessian and in with comfortable, light chairs made of the 50s wonder material: foam.