What a Performance! Pioneers of Popular Entertainment – Season 1
2015
3 Episodes
Episodes
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S01E01
Music Hall
Frank Skinner and Suzy Klein look at the birth of 19th-century music hall, the colourful world of its entertainers and the audiences whose lives were changed by it.
03 Nov 2015
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S01E02
The Rise of Variety
Frank Skinner and Suzy Klein explore the golden age of variety theatre, from the start of the 20th century to the outbreak of the Second World War.
10 Nov 2015
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S01E03
Variety Finds a New Home
Frank Skinner and Suzy Klein examine what happened to British popular entertainment - its stars and its audiences - during the Second World War and beyond.
17 Nov 2015