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Dance Cocky
Howard Jacobson on summer music festivals, authoritarianism and a dancing cockatoo.
From boyhood, through young adulthood, to the present day, Howard Jacobson ponders his relationship with dancing.
As summer festivals get underway across the UK, Howard tries to understand the attraction.
'I didn’t dance to Paul McCartney in the 60s, and I’m not going to start now... dancing isn’t what I do,' he says.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Last on
Sun 31 Jul 202208:48
BBC Radio 4
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- Fri 29 Jul 202220:50BBC Radio 4
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