1922: Leisure and Sport
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
A new craze for body building and that distinctive figure of the 20th century, the hobbyist, are the topic of conversation as we continue our series of features looking at cultural life in 1922. John Gallagher considers what the expansion of free time in the 1920s meant for leisure and the things people did for fun. He is joined by historian Elsa Richardson and literary scholar Jon Day.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
Find more discussions about culture and the arts of the 1920s in a collection called Modernism on the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p3nxh
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| 0:21.6 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
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| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
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| 0:44.4 | I'm John Gallowher, and in this edition, we're continuing our series looking at aspects of life in 1922, |
| 0:51.3 | to mark the founding of the BBC in October of that year. |
| 0:54.9 | Those girls, those girls, those lovely seaside girls, all dimples, smiles and curls, your headed simply whirles, they look all right, complexions pink and white, they've diamond rings and dainty feet, golden hair from Regent Street, |
| 1:13.2 | lace and grace and lots of face those pretty little seaside girls. 1922 was the year of the BBC's |
| 1:22.1 | first broadcasts and a year of modernist masterpieces, like James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. |
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