Newshour - Australian dance breaks a world record - BBC Sounds

Nearly six thousand people in Australia have set a world record by dancing non-stop for five minutes to Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits. The line dance has become an annual fixture at the Big Red Bash festival on the edge of the Simpson Desert in Queensland, but this year, coming just weeks after the death of the rock legend, it attracted record numbers of would-be dancers, with five-thousand, eight-hundred ad thirty-eight taking part.

But the song has become something of a dance anthem in Australia. Newshour's Tim Franks has been speaking to Jon Stratton, Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia, about how the dance spread across the country.