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Sing Something Sinful with Maria McErlane

Maria McErlane rummages through the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ archive of Funny Women in song for your delectation and delight.

Maria McErlane rummages through the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ archive of Funny Women in song for your delectation and delight. Sing Something Sinful evokes times gone by when women sang about the social mores, their troubles, status, difficult lives and subjects that in truth, it was deemed unacceptable to speak of.

Women won the right to vote in 1928, within living memory for some of us, but power and status automatically afforded to men has been a hard won battle and for many in the world an ongoing struggle.

This has been even more apparent in comedy. However, what was deemed unacceptable for women to discuss in days of yore became tolerable if they 'sang' about it. Innuendo and double entendre often foxed the authorities of the time, if material was considered 'naughty' it was the fault of the listener and the fetid, lurid workings of their mind!

With music from Marie Lloyd, Joyce Grenfell, Pearl Bailey, Carla Ulbrich and Victoria Wood. Maria chats to Dillie Keane, Barb Jungr and Morwenna Banks about their musical and comic influences, the women they admire, how times have changed and the debt we owe to all the fabulous women who came before us.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

Thu 29 Dec 2016 22:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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21/09/2013

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Music Played

  • Victoria Wood

    The Ballad Of Barry and Freda (Let's Do It)

    • Victoria Wood Live.
    • Columbia.

  • Marie Lloyd

    Little Of What You Fancy Does You Good

    • Golden Years Of Music Hall.

  • Vesta Tilley

    Following In His Father's Footseps

  • Nina Simone

    I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl

  • Bea Arthur

    What Do You Buy A Nudist

  • Joyce Grenfell

    The Three Brothers

  • Shirley Bassey

    Burn My Candle

  • Ruth Wallis

    Boobs

  • Millicent Martin

    The Boy From

  • Fascinating AΓ―da

    Taboo

  • Fascinating AΓ―da

    One True Religion

  • Hermione Gingold

    Introductions

  • Dana Gillespie

    Horizontal Boogie

  • Joan Sims

    Men

  • Pearl Bailey

    I Hate Men

  • Victoria Wood

    Pam

  • Victoria Wood

    Baby Boom

  • Victoria Wood

    Things Would Never Have Worked

  • Carla Ulbrich

    What If Your Girlfriend Was Gone

  • Phyllis Diller

    Smile

Broadcast

  • Thu 29 Dec 2016 22:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2