In Popular Culture
- The 1937 British musical comedy film Calling All Stars featured Bert Ambrose, Carroll Gibbons and Evelyn Dall.
- The 1938 British musical comedy film Kicking the Moon Around featured Bert Ambrose and Evelyn Dall.
- The BBC Radio programme Dance Band Days ran from 1969 to 1995 with a playlist of British dance band music. It was presented by Alan Dell, and subsequently by Malcolm Laycock. The programme was later transferred to Sunday Night at 10, until the British dance band content was dropped by the BBC in 2008.
- The BBC Radio programme Thanks For The Memory presented by Hubert Gregg regularly featured British dance band music, and ran for 35 years until his death in 2004.
- The English television dramatist Dennis Potter was responsible for repopularizing music from the British dance band era in several of his works, with his actors miming period songs in Pennies From Heaven (1978) and The Singing Detective (1986).
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