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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.

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

4: Aristide Bruant
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.

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 and Fraser Kerr.

Music by Stephen Warbeck.

Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1991.

45 minutes

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