Last night's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? was focused on Gareth Malone (presenter of The Choir, etc.,) and his theatrical ancestors.
What I personally like was the way the episode managed to skirt around the less reputable aspects of, in particular, the music hall in Liverpool. Victorian music halls were quite scandalous, and the promise of private boxes available for 'Captains and Gentlemen' was perhaps less respectable than Gareth Malone seemed to think.
What was
truly remarkable though, was that Gareth was able to track down a voice recording
and a piece of film of his 2x great-grandfather, who was a comic actor. People are rarely so lucky!
The music hall in Dublin
did make my brain go to some truly awful puns about Dublin and Malone - involving a certain traditional song in which a girl sells shellfish. But, the less said about that, the better!
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