Clem Bastow sits down with Josh Kinal to talk about what happened to the Twenty Seventy project. It's a personal and introspective look at why macrame and full-fat cheese is no way to live.

Ep 5: Abandon All (New) Hope

Aug 20th, 2014 44m 43s

From "viral marketing" to merchandising to "explosion porn" in modern blockbusters, it turns out much of what we now know of multiplex cinema can be traced back to that mom

Ep 4: Play The Five Tones

Jul 16th, 2014 42m 6s

When we think of 1970s cinema, which directors do we immediatelyimagine? Scorsese? Coppola? Kubrick? ...Steven Spielberg?Joined by fellow Spielberg nut, filmmaker and screenwriting lecturer Adam Spellicy, Clem revisits the '70s output of her

Ep 3: Our Bonza Accent

Jun 4th, 2014 20m 52s

Does the development of the Australian accent in the 1970s mark the nascent stage of our national identity?Clem speaks to Georgia Webster about how the 1970s Australian accent came about and whether it is the definition of what it means to soun

Ep 2: Decade of Polyester and Sweat

Apr 8th, 2014 43m 49s

When we think about the fashion of the 1970s, we tend to get a vision in our minds: for some people that vision is disco, white flaired suits, cleavage-exposing dresses and platform shoes for all; for others it's about tight t-shirts, short sho

Ep 1: Heavy on Mungbeans

Mar 4th, 2014 23m 11s

In a world where everything is complicated; where desire and interest are so removed from the present that nothing seems to make any sense any more, Clementine Bastow decides to find out what it was like to live in the 1970s.She journeys back i

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