Crumpet! A Very British Sex Symbol

  • TV documentary
  • BBC Two
  • 2005
  • 1 episode

Documentary that charts that peculiarly British notion of 'crumpet' on TV and in film from the 1950s right through to the late 1980s. Features Tony Livesey, Austin Little, Honor Blackman, Dylan Jones, Shirley Eaton and more.

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Beefcake! A Very British Sex Symbol

Follow-up to Crumpet, examining the role of the hunky or macho male in British entertainment from the 1950s onwards.

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Up Pompeii

Classic British farce in which Roman slave Lurcio unwittingly gains possession of a list of people who are conspiring to bring down the Emperor Nero.

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Keeping The British End Up!

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