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Smokey Dives

on BBC Four

Documentary about how drab postwar Britain was enlivened by the trad-jazz scene. It became the country's first mass youth culture with young people dancing the night away in dimly-lit underground clubs, from London's infamous Cy Laurie Club in the Soho district, to the Cavern Club in Liverpool.

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