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*** 4 Extra celebrates Julie Covington's 80th birthday - born 11th September 1946. 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.

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