Let Me Entertain You - Episode 3

John Sessions presents a series charting the history of popular entertainment in Britain, from medieval minstrels to Victorian freakshows. He looks at the hundred-year period from the Restoration of 1660 onwards, and the rise of a new figure in popular entertainment: the sporting hero. Also the importance of the increasing use of printing, as a way of spreading popular entertainment around the country and of establishing popular tunes and songs.