1922: Wimbledon and tennis fashions
Historian David Berry and poet Matt Harvey talk to Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough about Centre Court and the competitions and stars playing at the All England Club in 1922.
How tennis stars developed in the 1920s. Historian David Berry and poet Matt Harvey talk to Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough about Centre Court, its opening in the new home of the All England Club in 1922, the styling of stars and how participation in tennis changed.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
You can find more conversations about art and culture of the 1920s in a collection called Modernism on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3's Free Thinking programme website /programmes/p07p3nxh
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