wherever you re joining wherever you rejoining me, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. all the way back in 1953, the coronation of the former queen elizabeth ii, britain was a very different place. the pomp and pageantry of installing the new monarch is held against a backdrop of united kingdom still very much recovering from the second world war. a peoplejust emerging from rationing with some meat and dairy products are still restricted. millions clustered around tvs for the first time watching from towns and cities still pockmarked after the devastation of six years of war. written victorious but hugely depleted from the war effort was still a major global economic power with manufacturing playing a much bigger part than today. fuelled on coal and fed by materials from a colonial system that was in the midst of breaking up, the population was younger, smaller, far less diverse and the wealth was spread around much more thinly. today s uk may have been unthinkable back then, b