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Witness History

The Windmill Theatre

Witness History

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, History

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A British national institution closed in October 1964. The Windmill Theatre had been one of the few places where it was possible to see naked women on stage, due to a loophole in the censorship laws. Lucy Burns speaks to former Windmill Girl Jill Millard Shapiro about her memories of performing at the theatre.

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Hi and thanks for downloading Witness, the History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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I'm Lucy Burns and today I'm taking you back to the autumn of 1964 and the

1:16.3

closure of a theatre in London's Soho which had become a national

1:20.4

institution because for a long time it was one of the few places in Britain you could

1:25.5

see naked women on stage due to a loophole in the censorship laws.

1:31.2

That particular blend of glamour and tachinous sweat and odic alone.

1:36.0

Something seedy, yet also touching and innocence.

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