"I am in awe Robert Kenny's analysis is quite brilliant, and exactly what Lucan deserves after all these years."

Anthony Slide, author and film historian

"A timely, fascinating and unique study of an unjustly neglected star."

Jeffrey Richards, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Lancaster

"This is a book I devoured "

Richard Anthony Baker, author, broadcaster and former BBC News Assistant Editor

During the 1930s and 40s, Arthur Lucan and his wife Kitty McShane were among the highest-paid and most admired variety artistes in Britain. They packed...