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What a Performance! Pioneers of Popular Entertainment

Episode 3: Variety Finds a New Home

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Duration: 59 minutes

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Frank Skinner and Suzy Klein examine what happened to British popular entertainment - its stars and its audiences - during the Second World War and beyond. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Frank Skinner
Presenter:
Suzy Klein
Production Company:
Liberty Bell Productions
Executive Producer:
Jamie Isaacs
Executive Producer:
Claire Whalley
Director:
Kim Lomax
Writer:
Kim Lomax
Musician:
Paul Smith
Participant:
Vicky Butterfly
Participant:
Jimmy McWilliams
Participant:
Andy Eastwood
Participant:
Brian Ward
Participant:
Jan Hunt
Participant:
Jacquie Storey
Participant:
Benjamin Holder
Participant:
Pippa Gearing
Participant:
Sarah Lindsay
Participant:
Lizzie Deane
Participant:
Mick Toner
Hairdresser:
Christine Vidler
Participant:
John Henty
Participant:
Walter Atherton
Participant:
Gerald Oxley
Participant:
Barry Cryer
Participant:
Chaz McDevitt
Participant:
Peter Donegan
Participant:
Ronald Regan
Participant:
Ruth Cherrington
Source: BBC Online

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