TalkTalks
The Smallest Shows on Earth
Price
£10
£10; doors 18:30.
About
Social historian and broadcaster Alan Dein discusses East London’s lost small cinemas and screens the 1957 comedy The Smallest Show on Earth.
The talk draws on Dein’s family connection to the Cable Picture Palace, a cinema in Cable Street destroyed during the Blitz. The programme includes a screening and theatrical surprises. Doors open at 18:30.
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