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Let Me Entertain You

First broadcast from 20080913 to 20081004.

John Sessions presents a series charting the history of popular entertainment in Britain, from medieval minstrels to Victorian freakshows.

5 episodes

Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Description
01	20080913	20081225	John unpicks some medieval myths about wandering minstrels and motley fools. John Sessions presents a series charting the history of popular entertainment in Britain, from medieval minstrels to Victorian freakshows. He starts with our medieval ancestors and attempts to unpick a few myths about wandering minstrels and motley fools keeping the toiling peasants entertained. John Sessions charts the history of popular entertainment in Britain. He looks at our medieval ancestors and unpicks some myths about wandering minstrels and motley fools.
	20080920		He looks at Elizabethan London, from Bankside theatre to ringside gambling, from merry jigs to brutal bear-baiting
02	20080920	20081225	John looks at Elizabethan London, from Bankside theatre to ringside gambling. John Sessions presents a series charting the history of popular entertainment in Britain, from medieval minstrels to Victorian freakshows. He looks at Elizabethan London, from Bankside theatre to ringside gambling, from merry jigs to brutal bear-baiting. John Sessions charts the history of popular entertainment in Britain. He looks at Elizabethan London, from Bankside theatre to ringside gambling, from merry jigs to bear-baiting.
03	20080927	20081225	John looks at the Restoration period, and the rise of the sporting hero. John Sessions presents a series charting the history of popular entertainment in Britain, from medieval minstrels to Victorian freakshows. He looks at the hundred-year period from the Restoration of 1660 onwards, and the rise of a new figure in popular entertainment: the sporting hero. Also the importance of the increasing use of printing, as a way of spreading popular entertainment around the country and of establishing popular tunes and songs. John Sessions charts the history of popular entertainment in Britain. The Restoration period from 1660 onwards, and the rise of the sporting hero figure.
04 Last	20081004	20081225	Mass entertainment in Victorian Britain: Dickens, circus attractions and the music halls. John Sessions presents a series charting the history of popular entertainment in Britain, from medieval minstrels to Victorian freakshows. He looks at how the masses were kept amused in Victorian Britain by Dickens, circus attractions and the music halls. John Sessions charts the history of popular entertainment in Britain. How the masses were kept amused in Victorian Britain by Dickens, circus attractions and the music halls.