Cabaret group Duckie to celebrate Fanny Cradock in Waltham Forest

Year-long London borough of culture programme includes queer tribute to fearsome TV cook

Fanny Cradock is to be celebrated in the borough of her birth in a way she probably never imagined – with an alfresco gender politics summer party of drag queens and kings.

Members of the cabaret group Duckie are planning what they say will be a very queer mashup of postwar pop culture, style, food and gender politics in honour of the fearsome TV cook in Cradock’s home area of Leytonstone.

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