Marie Kelly and Jamie Kennett take you on a grand tour across the Great American Songbook, exploring its influence and impact on 20th Century popular music. In it's inaugural first episode, the show visits several topics including Hoagy Carmichael, the stylistic trademarks of American pianists, jazz and the theatre, music in the First World War, and female vocalists of the 1940s.
Broadcasts every Sunday at 17:00GMT on www.dealradio.co.uk.
