Episode 3

Overview

Arlene Philips joins Len in a quickstep down memory lane as they reminisce about steel drums and cool jazz, exploring how music was just one of the ways new immigrants added much-needed colour and gaiety to the drab post-war years. Not that you might be able to see much of it through the deadly smog which invaded the streets of London in the winter of 1952. And was the 1950s policeman really like Dixon of Dock Green?