Vive la Revolution Joan Bakewell on May 68

In 1968 Joan Bakewell was one of the few female TV presenters fronting the BBCs Late Night LineUp and addressing daily the most pressing issues of the time In this film she looks back at the events that led to what for many became the defining event of that extraordinarily turbulent year the protests in France in May While the rest of the world was in turmoil with the Vietnam War causing increasing dissent the Civil Rights movement growing in intensity and young people finding new ways of expressing themselves as 1968 began it seemed to Frances president General de Gaulle that his country was immune to the kind of protest sweeping the rest of the world