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Let Me Entertain You: Elizabethan London

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Elizabethan London

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Ringside gambling, brutal bear-baiting and Bankside theatre - the age of the libertine.

Ringside gambling, brutal bear-baiting and Bankside theatre. John Sessions reaches the age of the libertine in Elizabethan London. From 2008.

Elizabethan London, from Bankside theatre to ringside gambling, from merry jigs to brutal bear-baiting.

John Sessions continues his series charting the history of popular entertainment in Britain, from medieval minstrels to Victorian freakshows.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2008.

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John Sessions charts the history of popular entertainment in Britain

John Sessions charts the history of popular entertainment in Britain, from medieval minstrels to Victorian freakshows

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