Dancing in the Streets: The Story of a Glasgow Upbringing

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This is Glasgow journalist Cliff Hanleys sparkling, unsentimental and uproariously funny account of growing up in the Gallowgate and then Shettleston in the 1920s and 1930s and his working life as a radio broadcaster and journalist in the 1940s and 1950s. A natural-born raconteur with a marvellous ear for dialect, Hanley has an extraordinary ability to bring alive the people and places to give a vibrant snapshot of Scotlands largest city.

These razor-sharp observations of times log past cover a huge range of themes, from family life, art and showbiz to more weightier topics such as politics, sex, TB and what it was like to be a conscientious objector during the Second World when Hanleys brothers and friends were all overseas serving in the armed forces. But the grittier episodes are always leavened with irrepressible humour, and the true Glasgow spirit shines through.

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Clifford Cliff Hanley was a Glasgow journalist, broadcaster and novelist. In addition to his journalism, he is best known for writing the words to Scotlands unofficial national anthem, Scotland the Brave. Under the pen-name Henry Calvin he published a number of thrillers. He also wrote film and TV scripts one of his scripts for Between the Lines was described by Mary Whitehouse as the filthiest programme she had seen on TV for a ver long time at the first Clean Up TV Campaign in 1964. Cliff Hanley died in 1999.