Tony Staveacre

Tony Staveacre is a writer and radio and television producer. His books include Al Bowlly and The Songwriters and Slapstick! the illustrated story of knockabout comedy. His programmes Irving Berlin the Voice of the City and FaÌ_ade have won awards in the US and Canada. In 2004 he wrote and produced Tango Maestro for BBC Four, which premieres on 8 April 2005. He lives on the Mendip Hills with a wife and a saxophone.

A Family Business

In Charlie Chaplins film The Circus (1928), the maestro confronts his own worst nightmare: the clown who cant raise a laugh. The tramp is auditioning for a place

By Tony Staveacre

/ 21 Jul 2005

New Tango

It was an unusual setting for a concert: the garden of the Nationalgalerie in Berlin – Mies van der Rohe’s final architectural flourish in the city which abandoned him in

By Tony Staveacre

/ 7 Apr 2005