Ep 3 from All You Need is Love: I Can Hypnotise ‘Dis Nation
Thanks to the hit movie, ‘The Sting’, everyone reckons they know about
Ragtime. But do they?
This episode includes the oldest known piece of film (1898) showing what the Ragtime cakewalk was really like. Although reference is made to other early ragtime composers, this episode is essentially the story of Scott Joplin – an extraordinary tragedy of failure, frustration, pride, of the black man’s struggle to achieve for himself a proper place in American society. There is also rare early film of Irving Berlin (Alexander’s Ragtime Band) as well as film of Joplin’s birthplace and of the madhouse where he died. Tony Palmer
UK 1975/76 Tony Palmer 58m
Sun 17 May 10:00
Tickets £8
