In a slightly hypnagogic living room overlooking a heaving North Sea, my sometimes musical grandmother, who brought me up, liked to watch a BBC programme called ‘The Good Old Days’. Rather than this just being a resting place for once popular Victorian-Edwardian music hall songs, it was also an elaborate excuse for people in the More

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