Arts and Culture

On This Day – 4 May

Posted on: Thu 4 May 2017

On this day in history, bulldogging was invented, live models were used to advertise bras on television and surf guitar King, Dick Dale was born. Tom Mann tells Jennie Lenman more.

Produced by Tom Mann

Image sourced from Flickr

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