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- Dancing On The Edge by award-winning writer Stephen Poliakoff was inspired by the discovery that black musicians were championed by royalty led by the Prince of Wales — later King Edward VIII — despite the rising tide of racism and fascism in the period."
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Dancing on the Edge is a British television drama written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff and produced by the BBC about a black jazz band in London in the early 1930s. The series aired on BBC Two between 4 February and 10 March 2013.
Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Poliakoff claims the story was partly inspired by the antics of Prince George (future Duke of Kent) and the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) and their interest in jazz musicians and racial issues in the '30s.
Oct 22, 2013 · The original mini-series Dancing on the Edge is a tremendously compelling story about a group of black jazz musicians called the Louis Lester Band, in London during the early 1930s, as they...
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Where did the idea come from to create Dancing On The Edge? The idea came to me when I was researching The Lost Prince. I was researching George, the fourth son of the King and I discovered...
Dancing On The Edge by award-winning writer Stephen Poliakoff was inspired by the discovery that black musicians were championed by royalty led by the Prince of Wales — later King Edward VIII —...
Episodes 1 and 2. Stephen has created a multi-layered story with Dancing On The Edge that encompasses immigration, racism, the advance of jazz music and class. Is this a story with which...
Dancing on the Edge: With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Goode, Joanna Vanderham, Wunmi Mosaku. Set in the 1930s, a black Jazz band rises in fame and popularity while becoming entangled in an intricate web of intrigue, mystery and suspense with the elite of London society.
