The Gargoyle Club

First broadcast from 20000918 to 20000922.

Was 50s Soho really so glamorous, beguiling and exotic?

 
 
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The Club Of Twenty Thousand Reflections20000918With George Melly and other regulars of its clubs and dives, Nigel Richardson challenges the comforting myths of London's Latin quarter.
What Behaviour Is There In This Bottle?20000919With Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, art dominated 1950s Soho. But their painting contemporaries found life quite different.
Hello Darling, Buy Me A Drink20000920Life in the smokey, cosmopolitan bars of 50s Soho was one of inspired conversation, champagne and oysters. Or was it?
The Door Flew Open And In Strode A Mink Coat20000921The queen of 50s Soho had three husbands, swigged spirits during portrait sittings, and found Oscar Wilde at her death.
A Literary Leg Up20000922The gilded image of Soho in the 50s owes much to one single-minded chronicler. But should we believe him?