What a Performance! Pioneers of Popular Entertainment
What a Performance! Pioneers of Popular Entertainment
Season 1
20153 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Music Hall
2015-11-03
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.
- E2
The Rise of Variety
2015-11-10
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.
- E3
Variety Finds a New Home
2015-11-17
Frank Skinner and Suzy Klein examine what happened to British popular entertainment - its stars and its audiences - during the Second World War and beyond.
