Blackpool: The Greatest Show Town
Saturday 23 June 2007 20:45-21:15 (Radio 3)
Film-maker Ken Loach returns to Blackpool to recollect the summer shows of his boyhood. Focusing on the comedy acts and the working class resort he remembers, he paints a picture of the northern holiday town at the peak of its popularity in the 1940s.
The entertainers in the programme all appeared in Blackpool's theatres during the 1940s.
They are:
Norman Evans
George Formby
Jimmy James
Jewell and Wariss
Josef Locke
Albert Modley
Tessie O'Shea
Frank Randle
Ronnie Ronalde
Randolp Sutton
Jimmy Wheeler
Ann Zeigler and Webster Booth
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