Lisa Appignanesi presents the cultural history of cabaret. Cabaret found joyful expression in Berlin in the 1920s and ’30s but its roots go back to Chat Noir in Paris in the 1880s. Lisa Appignanesi is a writer and critic whose books include The Cabaret. Includes Q&A.
https://soundcloud.com/southbankcentre/lisa-appignanesi-cabaret-talk
http://www.kwf.org/kurt-weill/weill-works/132-n4main