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Some Like It Hot

Cleo Laine revisits the 1940s golden age of the all-girl swing band in the UK and America, in their own words. From December 1999.

Cleo Laine revisits the golden age of the all-girl swing band in the UK and America.

From Ivy Benson to the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, she explores the careers of professional women musicians in the 1940s in their own words.

Cleo speaks to musicians Sheila Tracey, Gracie Cole, Elsie Ford, Helen Wood, Carline Ray, Maxine Kneper, Rosa Bellamy and Viola Smith - plus historians Sally Placksin and Sherrie Tucker.

Producer: Virginia Crompton

First broadcast on Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 4 in 1999.

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