A coded bomb warning causes panic in the West End, but Danny the drag queen must practise his act.
We follow the fortunes of history student Gwen, training to be a stripper for a summer job, and Danny, an unemployed actor who is a drag queen at night.
Bespoke tailor Mark appears in a Saatchi & Saatchi ad, Gerard concocts erotic costumes for the Raymond Revuebar, and drag artist Danny buys a new frock.
The stories of Dinah and Sylvia, two of Soho's older residents, and Sue and Jane, outreach workers giving out condoms and advice for prostitutes and rent boys.
Sex worker Rachel and maid Pam talk about accommodation problems, and drag artist Danny lunches with mum, auditions and appears on cable TV.
It's Pink Weekend, and Danny gears up to join a drag queens' pub crawl round Soho's gay bars. At the French House, proprietor Noel is giving his daughter away at a stylish wedding.
Home beat policemen John and Rob prepare for Euro 96 and warn the community of the fans that will flood to the West End. Danny starts his new job at a nightclub, greeting arriving ravers.
A look at the policing of soccer hooligans at Euro 96, and we see male stripper Troy in rehearsal and performance.
Tension builds as England face Germany in Euro 96 semi-final. The cast and crew of Les Miserables try to catch the score between scenes.
Choreographer Gerard takes his stripper protégé Troy on a striptease tour of clubs in southern France. Michele celebrates her patisserie's 25th anniversary.
Tailor Mark is having the best year of his career, launching a designer label, having a full-sized portrait painted of himself and preparing for his first British catwalk show, but then he's caught driving whilst banned and summoned to the magistrates court.
Friends rally round to salvage Mark's fashion show after his brush with the law. Actor Danny has landed a job that for once does not involve drag, but he is worried his plucked eyebrows might be inappropriate.
1996 saw the peak of Britpop, the divorce of Charles and Diana and England hosting the European Football Championship. It also saw the beginnings of a new TV genre, ‘docu-soap’, with Chris Terrill’s series Soho Stories. Armed with a single camera, Chris embedded himself in the heart of this multi-faceted community, charting their lives, work, relationships, religion and fears. Chris tells us how his career as an anthropologist provided the inspiration for the idea and how the invention of a new video camera made that a reality. He describes the stories he found: the last days of what had once been Soho’s thriving Jewish populace, its notorious sex industry, the rise of the ‘pink pound’ and the battle against crime. Tales told with warmth through the people living them, their guard down - Chris making friendships that have lasted to this day.
