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Dancing on aTightrope

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A reassessment of Jean Cocteau , poet, draughtsman, dramatist, cineast, novelist and diarist. Richard Mayne looks again at his life and his legend. With archive recordings of Cocteau and contributions from his friends and people who worked with him - Nicole Stephane , Denise Tual ,
Carole Weisweiler ,
James Lord and Bernard Minoret - and from film historian
Michel Ciment , writer
Edmund White , author and screenwriter
Jacques Fieschi , editor of his work Professor Pierre
Caizergues, and Michael Sheringham , Professor of French at Kent University.

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Jean Cocteau
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Richard Mayne
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Nicole Stephane
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Denise Tual
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Carole Weisweiler
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James Lord
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Bernard Minoret
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Michel Ciment
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Edmund White
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Jacques Fieschi
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Michael Sheringham
Source: Radio Times

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