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Ustinov Ad Lib

on BBC One London

A Sunday Night impromptu musical evening of spoof, parody, and satire by Peter Ustinov, aided and abetted by Dudley Moore, Antony Hopkins, Bernard Keeffe.
A selection from wholly unscripted and unrehearsed sketches recorded on one hectic day in BBC-2's Music International studio.

Including:
A New Menotti Opera; Debussy Rediscovered; Mussorgsky Re-Examined; Schubert Revised; Bach Revisited; Interviews with the Eminent Composers (Dr. Strumpfhausen, N.P. Krupchenka and Ovd Ransom Butterfield); Making An Opera on Lady Chatterley's Lover

"Wittily exact and hilarious parody... which should be preserved for the unhappy posterity that will not be able to hear Mr. Peter Ustinov and Mr. Dudley Moore." (The Times)
"A delicious musical spoof." (Evening News)
"I don't even like opera, but I was hooting away like a fog-bound tug." (The Sun)
"I think it will become a TV classic." (Evening Standard)

See page 11

Contributors

Performer:
Peter Ustinov
Performer:
Dudley Moore
Performer:
Antony Hopkins
Performer:
Bernard Keeffe
Executive producer:
Stephen Hearst
Produced and directed by:
Francis Coleman

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