New series 1/4. Petula Clark profiles the legendary
- French chanteuse Edith Piaf , who died of cancer in 1963, aged 47, following a career marked by dramatically soaring performances, among them the genre-defining classics Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien and, perhaps most iconically, La Vie en Rose. The series features rare archive material and interviews with Charles Aznavour , composers
Charles Dumont and Francis Lai , and others. This first part recalls Piaf's impoverished early days, spent literally on the streets. Producer David Roper