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  • 1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year

  • By: Nick Rennison
  • Narrated by: Toby Longworth
  • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year

By: Nick Rennison
Narrated by: Toby Longworth
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1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the 20th century and still affect us today, 100 years later.

Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after more than six centuries. The British Empire had reached its greatest extent, but its heyday was over. The Irish Free State was declared, and demands for independence in India grew. New nations and new politics came into existence. The Soviet Union was officially created, and Mussolini's Italy became the first Fascist state.

In the USA, Prohibition was at its height. The Hollywood film industry, although rocked by a series of scandals, continued to grow. A new mass medium - radio - was making its presence felt, and, in Britain, the BBC was founded. In literature, it was the year of peak modernism. Both T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and James Joyce's Ulysses were first published in full.

In society, already changed by the trauma of war and pandemic, the morals of the past seemed increasingly outmoded; new ways of behaving were making their appearance. The Roaring '20s had begun to roar, and the Jazz Age had arrived.

1922 also saw the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi, the death of Marcel Proust, the election of a new pope, the release of the first major vampire movie and the brief imprisonment in Munich of an obscure right-wing demagogue named Adolf Hitler.

In a sequence of vivid sketches, Nick Rennison conjures up all the drama and diversity of an extraordinary year.

©2021 Nick Rennison (P)2022 W F Howes
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"Its eclecticism worked brilliantly...tremendous, beguiling." (William Boyd)

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