Desmond Carrington's Icons of the 50s - Ronnie Hilton and Eartha Kitt

Desmond Carrington presents words and music from stars whose records we first heard during the 1950s, using archive from Radio Luxembourg and the BBC Light Programme. Each one-hour programme features stars interviewed by John Hannam, among them Nat Gonella, Edmund Hockridge, Russ Conway, Frankie Vaughan, Lonnie Donegan, Ruby Murray, Lionel Bart and Al Martino. This week, he remembers the singer and former Radio 2 presenter, Ronnie Hilton, and the singer, actress and cabaret star Eartha Kitt. Throughout the series, Desmond's guest is the veteran singer and broadcaster Teddy Johnson who, 60 years ago, was the first British presenter of the first-ever radio series of Top Twenty record programmes.