Late Night Live - 2008-10-02
Late Night Live - 2008-10-02
Wed Oct 01 10:00:00 EDT 2008
The Kit-Cat Club: friends who imagined a nation
For most people a Kit-Kat conjures up a chocolate covered biscuit, and the words from the 1957 TV commercial `Have a Break, have a Kit-Kat.
But the sweet itself was named after a literary club started in 1690s London whose members ambitiously strove to reform - and re-define English culture.
The Kit-Cat´s took on everything from literature, music, architecture, gardening, interior design, portraiture, cookery, manners, parliamentary politics ... 




