Royal Pavilion
Museum in Brighton and Hove, EnglandWikipedia
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Sep 23, 2026
Sheldon HallHOST
So it's a kind of allegory of the First World War presented as a musical theatre entertainment.
Sheldon HallHOST
It's initially set in and largely takes place in Brighton Pavilion and on Brighton Pier.
Sheldon HallHOST
And the exteriors and interiors evoke a kind of Edwardian end of the pier show.
Sheldon HallHOST
But that is alternated with scenes which are more realistically used to represent the First World War itself.
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Sheldon HallHOST
And absolutely, it builds.
Sheldon HallHOST
The second half, I think, is better than the first half.
Sheldon HallHOST
I guess in part because we're more concerned with the Western Front than we are with the Brighton Pavilion.
Sheldon HallHOST
But it doesn't move me in the way that it did when I was 15, for
Hugo RifkindPANELIST
[laughs]
Zoe LyonsPANELIST
It's like, "That is the Royal Pavilion."
Andy ZaltzmanHOST
Yeah.
Hugo RifkindPANELIST
[laughs]
James FoxHOST
Oh
Alastair SookeHOST
... which I'm sure you know, where you see the silhouette of Eileen Agar against Brighton Pavilion and-
James FoxHOST
Mm
Alastair SookeHOST
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