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- Season 0 The Culture Show: Edinburgh Festival 1
- Season 0 The Culture Show: Edinburgh Festival 2
- Season 0 The Culture Show: Edinburgh Festival 3
- Season 0 Michael Jackson Special
- Season 0 A History of the World: Culture Show Special
- Season 0 The RIBA's Best Buildings of 2011 Special
- Season 0 Steven Spielberg Special
- Season 0 Into Orbit: A Culture Show Special
- Season 0 Sigur Rós Special
- Season 0 Who on Earth Was Ford Madox Ford? A Culture Show Special
- Season 0 The Knight Errant: Lee Child - A Culture Show Special
- Season 0 Ice Age Art: A Culture Show Special
- Season 0 Your Paintings
- Season 0 The Magic Tricks of JJ Abrams
- Season 0 Not Like Any Other Love: The Smiths
- Season 0 Swinging into the Blitz
- Season 0 The Mormons Are Here!
The Culture Show - Season 0 Episode 16 Swinging into the Blitz
5.80 60 minutes When a handful of musical immigrants from the Caribbean islands came to Britain in the 1920s and 30s, it was the beginning of both musical and political change. Leslie Thompson, an innovative musician and trumpeter, and Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson, a brilliant dancer and charismatic band leader, pooled their talents to start the first black British swing band. Clemency Burton-Hill reveals the untold story of the black British swing musicians of the 1930s, whose meteoric rise to fame on London's high society dance floors was cut short by unexpected tragedy at the height of the Blitz.
