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1922: Wimbledon and tennis fashions

1922: Wimbledon and tennis fashions

FromArts & Ideas


1922: Wimbledon and tennis fashions

FromArts & Ideas

ratings:
Length:
15 minutes
Released:
Dec 22, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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 BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p3nxh
Released:
Dec 22, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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