Episodes 26
Avg. Duration 38m
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Since Jan 2023
Latest Episode May 2025

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You probably think you know what life was like in Britain after the war. But what myths do we tell ourselves about the pre-digital world? From coal to contraception and ID cards to school beatings, Ros Taylor delves into the truth about British postwar life in Jam Tomorrow. From the makes of Oh God, What Now? Follow Jam Tomorrow on Twitter

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S3E8 Jam Tomorrow has moved!

May 12, 2025 3m

Ros Taylor here with an important message. Jam Tomorrow has MOVED — and it’s now called MORE JAM TOMORROW It’s super easy to subscribe to the new feed. Just search for MORE JAM TOMORROW on your…

S3E7 Welsh Nationalism: Cymru am byth

Oct 15, 2024 44m

What does it mean to be Welsh?The writer Jan Morris said Wales was ‘a distinctly separate and often vehement idea’. But what is that idea? Do you need to understand Welsh to grasp it?How is Wales ……

S3E6 Ugandan Migration: 90 Days to Leave

Oct 01, 2024 40m

The expulsion of Asians from Uganda in 1972 was brutal.Twenty eight thousand refugees arrived in Britain. The government scrambled to find homes and jobs for them.Not everyone was pleased about it.…

S3E5 North Sea Oil: Hit the gas

Sep 17, 2024 43m

In 1969, three kilometres under the North Sea, drillers found something that would change Britain completely.It would transform us into an oil-producing nation, fuel Thatcherism in the 1980s, feed…

S3E4 Women’s Football: Kicking back

Sep 03, 2024 30m

The Lionesses’ Euro victory captivated English football fans – but this success was once unimaginable. In 1921, the English Football Association banned women from playing on any of its pitches, a ban…

S3E3 Rationing: Milk and no honey

Aug 13, 2024 37m

Mock cream. Lord Woolton Pie. For 14 years the government put draconian restrictions on how much Britons could eat. Each meal had to be carefully planned and every scrap of food eked out to avoid…

S3E2 Concorde: Feeling supersonic

Jul 30, 2024 36m

Some say it was the greatest ever feat of European engineering. A few even think that we wouldn’t have joined the European Economic Community without it. Others complained it ate up ten times as much…

S3E1 The Green Belt: Fields forever?

Jul 16, 2024 41m

The Green Belt is a powerful symbol of rural England — and Labour knows it. The new government says it wants to build on unlovely bits of green belts. A lot of people don’t like that.   Who decided…

S2E9 Women’s magazines: Dreams on paper

May 14, 2024 45m

In their heyday women’s magazines sold 12 million copies a week. And at their best, these magazines changed women’s lives. They advised, they inspired, they gave us a glimpse of a different way of…

S2E8 Suez: The end of an empire

Apr 30, 2024 27m

When it comes to intervention in the Middle East, there is one word that sums up British hubris. And that word is Suez. But did Britain learn from one of our most infamous mistakes in the Middle…

S2E7 This way out: Decriminalising homosexuality

Apr 16, 2024 39m

In our latest look into postwar history: decriminalising homosexuality. In 1967 — for the first time in more than 400 years — two men over 21 were legally allowed to have sex, in private, with each…

S2E6 Coal: The Pits and the Pendulum

Apr 02, 2024 42m

Coal: filthy, dangerous, and vital to Britain’s economy — but not any more. What did coal mining really mean to people? And why is coal so key to the biggest issues in politics — from the founding of…

S2E5 National Service: Not at ease

Mar 19, 2024 38m

National service has become part of the mythology of a braver, stronger Britain, where young men did their duty for their country and ended up having a damn good time doing it. But did they? What did…

S2E4 Corporal Punishment: ill disciplines

Mar 05, 2024 30m

Swish… thwack. After the war, one British tradition continued unabated: beating children in schools. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that it was completely outlawed. Why was the UK so attached to…

S2E3 The Marshall Plan: Uncle Sam to the rescue

Feb 20, 2024 37m

After the War, Britain was broke and broken – even broker than France. America was faced with a stark choice: invest billions in a shattered Europe or watch its citizens go hungry, or worse,…

S2E2 Ten Pound Poms: Did the Australian dream pay off for British migrants?

Feb 06, 2024 30m

Ros Taylor’s exploration of Britain’s postwar identity crisis continues. After the War, Britain was broke and broken. Between 1947 and 1981 over a million Britons left for a new life in Australia,…

S2E1 Contraception: Where there’s a pill, there’s a way

Jan 23, 2024 41m

A new fortnightly series of Ros Taylor’s exploration of the post-War promises Britain made to itself… and whether they were kept. In this edition: the quest for cheap, easy-to-access, stigma-free…

S1E8 Podmasters presents a brand new podcast - This Is Not A Drill

Dec 01, 2023 10m Bonus

From the producers of Jam Tomorrow - a brand new show looking at the tectonic shifts in global power occurring right before our eyes, called This Is Not A Drill.Presented by ex-BBC News host and…

S1E7 I.D. Cards: Show me who you are

Jun 21, 2023 36m

A Jam Tomorrow special: Identity cards. What happens when principles come up against panic? When a high minded determination not to collect private info runs up against a society which depends on…

S1E6 Choice: The buck stops with you

Feb 20, 2023 37m

Season finale: Since the War, Britons experienced an explosion of choice in food, services, work, utilities, even belief and sexuality. But did ever-increasing choices really lead us to the promised…

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