Broadcaster Libby Purves (Image: David Levenson/Getty Images)
The BBC Radio 4 presenter, 69, thinks programmes set in the 1950s and early 1960s resonate with viewers because they remind them of their own childhoods. Making the comments in her Radio Times column, Purves said: “We baby boomers can take or leave the bonnet-shows like Vanity Fair, and cod-medieval legends seem mainly to suit the young, but we are riveted by shows like Call The Midwife and Endeavour. “It’s not nostalgia, but something odder and richer,” she continued.
It’s not nostalgia, but something odder and richer
Libby Purves
“We recognise from infancy the look and feel of the Fifties and early Sixties: “folk in oldstyle hats and coats”, civil formality, social shibboleths, stone sinks.
She added: “As we move towards grandparenthood
