the second of two programmes on the great Russian impresario
Introduced by Peter Ustinov
The story of Diaghilev and his ballet company from 1919 until his death ten years later, as told by his friends and colleagues
Tamara Karsavina, Lydia Sokolova, Dame Marie Rambert, Dame Ninette de Valois,
Dame Alicia Markova, Sacheverell Sitwell, Leonide Massine, Nicolas Nabokov, Igor Markevitch, Serge Lifar, Cyril Beaumont, Anton Dolin, Ursula Moreton, Laura Wilson, Leighton Lucas, Errol Addison
Written and produced by John Drummond
A BBC-tv/Bavarian TV Service co-production