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In 1959, Anti-Americanism surged in the UK. England seethed over America\u2019s treatment of its Prime Minister who was smacked down for daring to use diplomacy to resolve the crisis over divided Germany.\xa0 In 1959 England also fretted over a new American export: the Beatnik. The British foreign office forcefully responded with a report advocating for \u201c an increased effort in the field of press, radio and television in the U.K. to say the right kind of things about the Americans.\u201d This is the very moment Kenneth Tynan was commissioned to make a documentary for British Television about American Non-conformism and Dissent. We take a close look at one of the Cold War's most bizarre and inspired artifacts of Anti Anti-American propaganda.

Shownotes: Laura Bradley writes on Brecht and German theater. Kenneth Tynan\u2019s documentary aired on January 27th, 1960 and then was supposedly erased (it wasn\u2019t).

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