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Fairest Isle: Wink the Other Eye: 2: It's a Great Big Shame

on BBC Radio 3

Four programmes in which Patrick O'Connor celebrates the legacy of the music hall.

Have our attitudes to love, marriage and divorce changed since the music hall's Victorian heyday?
Lovers' quarrels, mother-in-law troubles and making the best of an ill match are still the stock-in-trade of many contemporary comics. Lucie Skeaping and Tim Laycock sing surprisingly topical songs from the 1890s, accompanied by Kevin Amos, Hilary Sturt and Robin Jeffrey. And novelist Paul Bailey relives his childhood visits to the halls where stars like Kate Carney still shone undimmed.
(Repeated Friday 12 midnight)

Contributors

Presenter:
Patrick O'Connor
Singer:
Lucie Skeaping
Singer:
Tim Laycock
Accompanist:
Kevin Amos
Accompanist:
Hilary Sturt
Accompanist:
Robin Jeffrey
Interviewee:
Paul Bailey

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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