How ballroom dancing gripped Britain

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🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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From the Turkey trot to the scandalously intimate moves of the Parisian tango, the 20th century saw Britain gripped by dance craze after dance craze. Performed in public halls up and down the country, ballroom took the nation by storm as people from all walks of life sashayed to the dancefloor with their partners. Hilary French tells Emily Briffett about ballroom’s dramatic surge in popularity, its decline in the 1960s and its recent resurgence with Strictly Come Dancing. (Ad) Hilary French is the author of Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing (Reaktion Books, 2022). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ballroom-Peoples-History-Hilary-French/dp/1789145155/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty Subscribe to BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed this season and receive a book of your choice worth up to £30* at https://www.buysubscriptions.com/subscribe2022 Listeners from outside the UK can also subscribe *Book promotion only available for UK residents Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.3	From the turkey trot to the scandalous moves of the Parisian tango.
0:54.9	The 20th century saw dance craze after dance craze grip Britain.
0:59.7	Performed in public dance halls up and down the country,
1:03.0	Ballroom took the nation by storm,
1:06.0	as people from all walks of life took to the dance floor with their partners.
1:13.6	Ahead of this weekend's Strictly Come Dancing Final, Hilary French tells Emily Briffitt about ballroom's dramatic surge in popularity.
1:19.6	It's the decline in the 1960s and its recent strictly resurgence.
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