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Radio 2's Dance Season

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Radio 2 celebrates dance in all its forms.

Radio 2 celebrates all things dance related this Christmas from Northen Soul to Riverdance and Swing to Morris Dancing.

Radio 2's Dance Season: Super Troupers

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Super Troupers

19/12/2011

BBC Radio 2 - Radio 2's Dance Season, Super Troupers

Arlene Phillips tells the story of the legendary television dance troupes.

Arlene Phillips looks back at the rise and fall of the TV dance troupes - the Beat Girls, Go Jos, Ruby Flipper, Legs & Co, her very own Hot Gossip, and Pan's People.

Radio 2's Dance Season continues with Arlene Phillips looking back at the rise and fall of the television dance troupes: the Beat Girls, Go Jos, Ruby Flipper, Legs & Co, Hot Gossip, and the most famous of them all - Pan's People.

For more than two decades, no television music show was complete without its own troupe of glamorous dancers. The girls - and sometimes boys - became stars in their own right. 

Choreographer and Hot Gossip founder Arlene talks to some of the dancers and producers behind the routines, telling the story of dance troupes; from shaky beginnings on live black and white TV, to their demise at the hands of the million dollar music video.

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