The first of six programmes in which Brian Morton examines the jazz scene in Nazi Germany and looks at the ways in which it continued to flourish despite official condemnation. This week, he traces the early development of German jazz in the Weimar Republic before Hitler's ascension to power in 1933. He talks to historians and performers. introducing archive recordings from Berlin and other major centres, and featuring some of the American and British music which influenced German players and audiences. A Gleneagle production