Humphrey Carpenter introduces music and arts news, and delves into the heady world of Parisian cabaret at the end of the 19th century as the new film Moulin Rouge opens the 2001 Cannes film festival. Music in the programme includes at 7.00 a work by the first of this year's Masterprize semi-finalists, Graham Atkin 's North played by the BBC
Philharmonic under Rumon Gamba.