Eastern Cabaret was a live variety programme series broadcast 1938–1939 on BBC Television.
The BBC television service was suspended on 1 September 1939 with the outbreak of World War II, and no further episodes were made.
He went to five different agencies and gave auditions to thirty-two snakes, and even then failed to find a satisfactory performer".
[4] A later entry in Radio Times suggests that this may not have been entirely serious, saying that the background had been "codded" (i.e. parodied) by compere Cyril Fletcher.
[Note 2] As of February 2016[update], the following performers who appeared in Eastern Cabaret are subjects of Wikipedia articles.