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Good Opera, Bad Opera

First broadcast from 19980406 to 19980417.

The image of Victorian music hall has suffered from the cosy nostalgia of the long-running TV series The Good Old Days. Singer and songwriter Billy Bragg investigates Britain's first pop culture, uncovering the surprisingly modern wit and irreverence behind Britain's original urban folk music. The programme includes specially recorded performance by Billy in historic Hoxton.
 

8 episodes

 
SeriesEpisodeFirst
Broadcast		Description
198B0119980406John Sessions introduces a series about the triumphs and disasters of opera. Each day over the next two weeks, a guest from the operatic world chooses examples of opera at its best and worst and explains how one works and the other fails.
198B0219980407Another guest joins John Sessions to dissect operatic triumphs and disasters, contrasting samples of opera at its best and at its worst.
  19980409 
  19980410John Sessions discusses another contrasting pair of operatic moments with a guest from the world of opera and gets to grips with why one works and the other does not.
  19980413Another guest joins John Sessions to dissect operatic triumphs and disasters, contrasting examples of opera at its best and at its worst.
  19980414 
  19980416 
  19980417John Sessions discusses another contrasting pair of operatic moments with a guest from the world of opera and gets to grips with why one works and the other does not.