Celebrate the best of Britain: rich heritage, deep patriotism and an indomitable spirit. There's good reason to be proud! Never has there been a better time to unveil a 48-strong cavalcade of tunes that typify our unique British character, pay tribute to our Churchillian bulldog spirit and celebrate the rich heritage of this sceptred isle. Where else but Britain for warm beer, cricket, tea drinking, appalling weather, the BBC?? And what other nation loves to queue yet 'never' complains??! THE SPIRIT OF BRITAIN is a tribute to our land, our loves and our ever-so-very-British lives. Gathered here are the sing-a-long songs that helped us 'keep calm and carry on' as the bombs rained down - Bless 'Em All, Sing As We Go, There'll Always Be An England and more ... comic gems poking gentle fun at our inimitable fancies and foibles, such as Messing About On The River and Football Crazy ... and a whole string of rousing 'chin-up' songs (Pick Yourself Up, Happy Days Are Here Again) that can still lift the heart and raise a smile decades after they were first recorded. Who better could we choose to bring these time-honoured tunes alive than the stars who made them famous, be they icons of the music hall like Marie Lloyd, George Formby and the incomparable Harry Lauder, or national treasures of the calibre of Vera Lynn, Billy Cotton and Flanagan and Allen. From the witty wordplay of Noel Coward and Flanders and Swann to the sparkle and fizz of Gracie Fields at her funniest, THE SPIRIT OF BRITAIN promises unlimited good cheer from some of the 20th century's biggest and best loved British stars.