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The Secret Life of the Circus

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Behind the glitter and thrill of the Big Top, the circus is in difficulties -audiences are falling and competition is stiff. Yet the old-style troupe, travelling the country with artists and animals, still exists -as in the Roberts Brothers' Super Circus.
The Roberts family has brought this form of entertainment to the public for generations. They perform and organise a show containing tigers and elephants, clowns and magicians, ringboys and grooms- week by week, town by town, rain or shine.
Circus people are closely-related and close-knit. Margaret Percy goes 'behind the curtain' to reveal how - and why - they live as they do, and contrasts the 'secret life' with the public face. Producer SHARON BANOFF
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Margaret Percy
Producer:
Sharon Banoff
Source: Radio Times

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