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Dancing on the Edge

Series: Dancing on the Edge

4.3

(229)

Episodes

Year

2013

Language

English

Publisher

PBS

About

In the early 1930s London, the black jazz group known as the Louis Lester Band is on the rise. Countless aristocrats, including the royal family, ask the band to perform, but just as the band's success balloons, tragedy strikes, setting off a chain of events that may end it all.

Related Subjects

Drama

Episodes

1. Dancing on the Edge, Episode 1

1h 35m

London, 1933: Panic-stricken jazz band leader Louis Lester asks his friend, music journalist Stanley Mitchell, to help him flee the country.

2. Dancing on the Edge, Episode 2

With Wesley gone, Louis is disappointed at the band's lack of progress - until Mr. Donaldson arranges for them to play at a funeral organized by reclusive Lady Cremone, a dedicated jazz fan whom Stanley interviews for his magazine.

3. Dancing on the Edge, Episode 3

Interviewed by the police about the attack on Jessie, Louis tells them that he saw Julian fleeing the scene; but Pamela is insistent he was in Paris and asks Stanley to contact him with the news, as he was especially fond of Jessie.