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Turned Out Nice Again: The Story of British Light Entertainment
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'Hugely enjoyable... Perhaps without realising it, we are now living through a light entertainment golden age. How nice to have a book that makes you ponder such an idea in the first place.' Sinclair McKay, Daily Telegraph
In Turned Out Nice Again, Louis Barfe celebrates the work of the performers and impresarios who, from the 1930s onwards, pushed the creative boundaries of radio and then television to bring ground-breaking variety shows to a new audience.
With a cast of thousands, (as varied as The Crazy Gang, Peter Cook, Tommy Cooper, Shirley Bassey, Bruce Forsyth, the Two Ronnies and Reeves and Mortimer) Turned Out Nice Again brings vividly to life a world of comedians and cavorters, dancing girls and crooners. From the early days of vaudeville, via the golden age of radio, live television spectaculars, the rise of the chat show and alternative comedy, Turned Out Nice Again pulls back the curtain of variety to show the world of light entertainment in all its glory.
'A fine book... The top-billers are all here...The achievement of this book is to give credit where it's overdue... Absorbing.' Kit Hesketh Harvey, Guardian |
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