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Beside the Seaside

Episode 20 of 20

Archive footage telling the history of modern Britain. Melvyn Bragg looks back to the 1950s and the heyday of the British seaside holiday.

Melvyn Bragg, accompanied by a vintage mobile cinema, travels across the country to show incredible footage preserved by the British Film Institute and other national and regional film archives, to tell the history of modern Britain.

Melvyn is in Blackpool looking back to the 1950s to celebrate the heyday of the British seaside holiday.

Elaine Greeley shares her memories of a honeymoon spent at the British seaside and shows the British knack for having a good time, whatever the weather. Les Dennis talks about his lifelong relationship with Blackpool and salutes seaside entertainment which inspired him to become an entertainer. And Dame Sandra Burslem is transported back to her youth, when she appeared in a 1957 film shot in her home town of Blackpool.

29 minutes

Last on

Sat 14 Aug 2021 12:45
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:04

    Reginald Dixon

    I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside

  • 00:23

    Phil Kelsall

    Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White / Por Favor

Credits

Presenter Melvyn Bragg
Series Producer Dympna Jackson
Executive Producer Ruth Pitt

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