I have been watching this on repeat all morning. Another reason (which include Mad Men, The Graduate and Marie Antoinette) why I would really love for someone to invent time travel. asap.
The series investigates three decades in history, notorious for their glamour. The second instalment is all about the roaring 20s. plotting the rise and unglamorous fall of youth group The Bright Young Things. A group of cross dressing high society youths, drinking and partying to excess. Inspiring novelists and artists alike, including a young Cecil Beaton who photographed many of their antics. This collective of excessive youths partied with no regard or sensitivity to the economic struggles of the rest of the country during the Great Crash of '31 and the workers march from the north onto london. They paraded themselves before the press and became the first definition of celebrities popular culture has known. The final installment in the series is avaliable to download from BBCiplayer.
This photograph of the man central to the group, Stephan Tennant. Who put gold in his hair and wore lipstick and has been described as the David Bowie of the time.
Here is also the film written and produced by Stephen Fry. Based on the novel 'Vile Bodies' written by Evelyn Waugh another member of the Bright Young Things.
