Twentieth Century Blues

Series	Episode	First Broadcast	Description
199B	01	19990603	Vocalist Dana Gillespie presents a nine-part series taking a look at the blues.
199B	02	19990610	Vocalist Dana Gillespie presents the second in a nine-part series taking a look at the blues.
199B	03	19990617	Vocalist Dana Gillespie presents the third in a nine-part series taking a look at the blues, focusing on the sounds that came out of Memphis.
199B	04	19990624	Vocalist Dana Gillespie presents the fourth in a nine-part series taking a look at the blues, focusing on the golden age of the blues originating in Chicago.
199B	05	19990701	Vocalist Dana Gillespie presents the fifth in a nine-part series taking a look at the blues, focusing on New Orleans, where singers such as Fats Domino, Lloyd Price and Little Richard turned blues into rock 'n' roll.
199B	06	19990708	Vocalist Dana Gillespie presents the sixth in a nine-part series taking a look at the blues, focusing on Texas, home of blues legends such as T-Bone Walker, Freddy King, Lightnin' Hopkins and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
199B	07	19990715	Vocalist Dana Gillespie presents the seventh in a nine-part series taking a look at the blues, reflecting on the arrival of the blues in the UK in the 50s, its boom in the sixties, and its legacy up to the present day.
199B	08	19990722	Vocalist Dana Gillespie presents the eighth in a nine-part series taking a look at the blues. In this programme she looks at her female contemporaries on the blues scene and the pioneering blues ladies who inspired them.
199B	09 LAST	19990729	Vocalist Dana Gillespie looks at the singers who will keep the blues alive in the new millennium.

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