Alison Young is the Secretary of the British Music Hall Society. She ran away from the law to research and write about her family connections with the Music Hall and has uncovered many little gems that she shares with us today.
"Dainty Daisy Dormer" was a Music Hall star. She was also Alison's great great aunt. She and her sisters toured around the UK - and much further afield entertaining audiences in the thousands of music hall theatres that existed in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
As well as Daisy and Co., Alison talks about the art of Sickert, Degas, Lautrec and others who painted backstage scenes in theatres and music halls and gives an insight into the non-glamorous world of 19th/20th Century showbusiness.
Guest's fantasy dinner party guests:
Morten Harket
Queen Victoria
Laura Knight
Walter Sickert
Max Wall
For further info:
Alison's Blog: Music Hall Alice:
https://musichallalice.wordpress.com/
The British Music Hall Society
http://britishmusichallsociety.com/
The British Newspaper Archive:
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
My Old Man, A Personal History of Music Hall
By: John Major
Published by Harper Collins
British Music Hall: an Illustrated History
By: Richard Anthony Baker
Published by: Pen & Sword Books
Music:
"Champagne Charlie" by Alfred Lee & George Leybourne
Played by: James Hall
https://www.jamesahall.co.uk/
"I Wouldn't Leave My Little Hut For You" by Charles Collins & Tom Mellor
Played by : Guy Deardon
ISRC number. GB3GU1200723
Copyright owner Guy Dearden
https://www.theatremusicshop.com/index.html
Episode edited and produced by: Jacob Taylor
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