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Angela Rippon Meets: The Hoofers

Angela Rippon explores the world of tap-dancing, tracing its roots and exploring its current revival. She meets Ann Miller, the fastest tapper in the world, and takes a lesson with Lionel Blair.

In a programme first broadcast in 1981, Angela Rippon explores the world of tap-dancing, tracing its roots from Harlem, New York, and from clog-dancing in Lancashire. She also looks at the revival of tap on Broadway in her search to discover what it takes to become a professional dancer today.

She talks to Ann Miller, the fastest tapper in the world, finds out what a dancer's life is like backstage and sees for herself the agony of auditions. Finally, she takes a few tap lessons from the Happy Hoofer choreographer, Lionel Blair.

49 minutes

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Next Saturday 21:10

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Presenter Angela Rippon

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