The Whole Shebang Minute 25: A Little Of What You Fancy Does You Good

In Minute 25 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny, Mike, and Brant go deep into Brian Slade’s origins, beginning with his ostensible formative years in Birmingham, the cheeky travelogues of Jonathan Meades, the importance of the legacy of British music hall and its decline and fall in the 1950s, the queer coding and possible stereotyping within music hall, British entertainment in general and queer actors’ complicity in it, the history of cross-dressing on the British stage, Lindsay Kemp and his influence on young (and old) Bowie, the importance of David Bowie’s half-brother Terry Burns to his formative years, and we have our very first ChallengeBowie segment, where listener Laura Darby Singh takes on Bowie in her specialty skill of… saving apes!

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