Promised you a miracle: UK80-82

In the cold, dark summer of 1981, crowds gathering in Britain's streets could mean a royal wedding - or a riot.

Margaret Thatcher's government, taking power on a promise of renewal, seemed in catastrophic decline.

Britain remained troubled, inward-looking, run down by recession, transfixed by the threat of nuclear war.

Yet, within this bleak landscape, something was stirring. 'Promised You A Miracle' is the extraordinary untold story of Britain's revolution in the head: a shift in mass consciousness in which an old, self-doubting nation was transformed into something else: outward-looking, materialistic, colourful, lonely and cruel.