Remembering Lyricist Alan Bergman / The 'Outrageous' Jessica Mitford : Fresh Air

Remembering Lyricist Alan Bergman / The 'Outrageous' Jessica Mitford : Fresh Air

The lyrics for the songs "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life," "The Way We Were," "Nice 'n' Easy," "You Must Believe in Spring," and "The Windmills of Your Mind" were written by the husband and wife lyric-writing team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Alan Bergman died last week at the age of 99. The two wrote songs together for more than 60 years. They spoke with Terry Gross in 2007. The aristocratic, unconventional British Mitford sisters are…

‘They shall not pass’ : Cable Street, Fascism, and the Mitfords

Outrageous is a British historical TV drama following the lives of the Mitford sisters in the 1930s. In episode 6 of Series 1 ‘Point of no return’, it covered in amongst the relationship highs and lows within the family, the violence on October 4 1936 in Cable Street, London. Fascism was on the rise in […]