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Aristide Bruant

Episode 4 of 4

The socialist club owner questions his success. Based on characters from Toulouse-Lautrec's posters. Stars Bernard Hill.

Bernard Hill stars as Aristide Bruant and Julie Covington as Yvette Guilbert.

Aristide Bruant, in his club the Cafe Mirliton, has become a fashionable success - not what he intended.

He needs to find a new direction, and so does cabaret singer Yvette Guilbert.

Last in a series of plays by John Peacock based on the characters in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's posters, from the time of Paris’s Belle Epoque.

Aristide Bruant …. Bernard Hill
Yvette Guilbert …. Julie Covington
Toulouse-Lautrec …. Clive Merrison
Albine …. Pauline Letts
Max Schiller …. Brett Usher
Alexandre …. Robert Portal
Chopinette …. Alice Arnold

With:

Irene Sutcliffe
Jane Whittenshaw
Fraser Kerr

Music by Stephen Warbeck.

Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1991.

45 minutes

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