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Len Goodman's Dancing Years

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Music: Easy Listening, Soundtracks & Musicals

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...Years. The Strictly judge presents the music he has loved and danced to over the years

Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman dips into his treasured record collection and plays classic dance music tracks from the past 50 years and shares poignant and funny stories

Len Goodman's Dancing Years: Series 2

Len Goodman's Dancing Years: Series 2: Episode 1: Strictly Ballroom

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Episode 1: Strictly Ballroom

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Strictly Ballroom

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Knicker elastic, pickled walnuts and melting LPs feature in Led's musical reminiscences.

Strictly judge Len Goodman plays more classic dance music tracks from the past 50 years. Knicker elastic, pickled walnuts and melting LPs feature in Led's musical reminiscences.

Len waltzes, tangos, foxtrots and quicksteps through the music he's listened and danced to throughout his life.

In Strictly Ballroom we hear how only judicious use of knicker elastic rescues him from a dancing and sartorial disaster; how he inadvertently melted the LPs belonging to a world champion and how he spent his first ever wage packet on a jar of pickled walnuts and a ticket to see Frank Sinatra. 

And as usual, woven around Len's anecdotes are the backgrounds to the dances themselves and the tracks of music to which Len used to perform his fleckles and heel and toe steps, including favourites such as Andy Williams, The Stranglers, Van Morrison, Frank Sinatra and Etta James.

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Strictly judge Len Goodman plays more classic dance music tracks from the past 50 years

Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman returns to his treasured record collection, plays more classic dance music tracks from the past 50 years and shares poignant and funny stories

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