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Crumpet!: A Very British Sex Symbol
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'Crumpet!: A Very British Sex Symbol' is a one-hour BBC TV documentary written by Julie Burchill and Jane Garcia. It was presented by Tony Livesey and directed by John Moulson and first shown on UK TV on 28 December 2005.
It charted the history of British female sex symbols (crumpet) starting with Diana Dors using archive footage up to the late 1980s and featured some of James Bond's glamour girls, vampire victims in Hammer Horror films, the sexy girls of the 'Carry On' films, vestal virgins in the TV comedy 'Up Pompeii', and characters in 'Man About the House'. It also features interviews with members of Pan's People, the resident dancing troupe on 'Top of The Pops' and an interview with the singer-songwriter Lynsey de Paul. It features actors Honor Blackman, Ingrid Pitt,'Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror: The Complete Career' by Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter. McFarland, 13 October 2010, Barbara Windsor, Madeline Smith, Alexandra Bastedo, Caroline Munro,Caroline Munro, First Lady of Fantasy: A Complete Annotated Record of Film By Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter, Publisher: McFarland; 1 edition (12 June 2012), Julie Ege,page 128, The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films, Chris Fellner, 2019, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Sue Upton, Sally Thomsett,Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company by Howard Maxford, McFarland & Co Inc, Publication date 6 February 2019, Leslie Philips and Wendy Richard, and analyses by cultural commentators such as Dylan Jones, Germaine Greer, and Ned Sherrin.Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror: The Complete Career by Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter, Publisher: McFarland, 13 October 2010,
'The Guardian' newspaper reviewed the programme and noted that, perhaps surprisingly, Greer wasn't angered by the material that was being considered. She observed in the programme that "There's not much nutritional value in crumpet, but it won't kill you".Sam Wollaston, 'The Guardian', 29 December 2005 One year later, to redress the balance, the documentary 'Beefcake: A Very British Sex Symbol', also presented by Livesey, was broadcast by BBC2 on 27 December 2006.
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