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Celebrity gossip magazines, the flaunting of wealth and an insatiable desire for entertainment all seem like modern day issues but contributors including Media Guardian's Roy Greenslade draw some surprising parallels with the Elizabethan era. From thrilling pamphlets on crime and scandal to the flourishing entertainment scene in the English Renaissance, popular culture played as large a part in Elizabethan society as it does today. Presented by historian Dr Christopher Haigh.