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Tiger Tamer | 4. celebrity pedestrian

History Extra podcast
History Extra podcast
Tickling tigers one day, and cracking jokes to expectant crowds the next, Bob Carlisle was a circus showman, agent, clown and big cat tamer. In the third episode of our new series on this larger-than-life character of the Victorian age, David Musgrove speaks to historian John Woolf to consider Carlisle’s hair-raising life in the travelling circus, and how it helps us to understand the world of Victorian show business.

The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine.
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