Dancing Cheek to Cheek: An Intimate History of Dance — Season 1

Aired 17 November 2014 • 59 min

A look at how dancing went from being frowned upon as dangerous and debauched in the 17th century to being celebrated as an essential social skill in the 18th.

Aired 24 November 2014 • 59 min

How Britain's dance floors were revolutionised in the 19th century as the slow, stately dances of an earlier era were replaced with faster, freer ones.

Aired 1 December 2014 • 59 min

Len Goodman and Lucy Worsley show how the first few decades of the 20th century saw the most rapid and revolutionary change in the history of British dance.