IntroductionThe Eurovision Song Contest is now a much loved and looked for annual event that brings together songs from a variety of European countries to find which is the best. It’s unusual in that most countries allow viewers to vote and so the song is really the one that ordinary people judge as the best. That, at least, is the theory.
Britain has participated since the contest began and in the 1960s we had some successes as well as participating in some dramas. I am going to review each year from 1960 right up until 1969 with details of the British successes and failures and, of course, bring you details of the winning song each year.
In the 1960s Volvo, as well as a great many other foreign makers, were facing an uphill struggle to gain acceptance for their vehicles in the UK just because they were foreign cars. Look at any street scene photo of that period and see just how many non-British made cars you can spot, it really was a time when British people purchased British cars. 
Property, obviously, was cheaper to buy in the 1960s but it was also relatively cheaper and since then there has been a tremendous increase in property prices.
I recently acquired from the internet an old copy of Woman’s Weekly for 14 May 1960 and I thought it would be interesting to look and see what was inside and to see how different life was in those far off days and also how different (or similar) magazines were.
Part 1
This range of cars was called the ‘New class’ and, introduced in 1962, was the start of the succession of cars that created the niche for BMW in the UK that it now occupies. There was a whole stable of cars all of similar design but with a variety of engines designed to suit a variety of tastes and pockets.
As you will know, I am working through the ‘Radio Times’ for the mid 1960s and the series of posts is currently at Sunday afternoon on the Light Program, a link to the latest post is 
I noticed in the shops this last weekend in the UK that there was the start issue of a series (either weekly or monthly, I’m not sure) of a magazine which features episodes from the Bonanza TV series of the 1960s.