Dancer Louise's nickname of La Goulue is singularly appropriate - she's a glutton for food and life...

Starring Frances Barber.

When the Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Montmartre, Paris in 1889, Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to paint a series of posters. A performer's career was made if they secured an appearance.

John Peacock brings Toulouse Lautrec's poster characters to life, in the first of four plays about those entertainers, whose lives were as vivid as Lautrec's paint.

Louise Weber ...... Frances Barber
La Mome Fromage ...... Sylvestra Le Touzel
Zidler ...... Norman Jones
Annie ...... Jo Kendall
Joseph Oller ...... Carlos Douglas
Henri Lassin ...... Michael Graham Cox
Mme Gillottes ...... Margaret Courtenay
Gerard ...... John Bull
Mme Grille ...... Marcia King
Tremolada ...... Donald Gee
Jeanne Faes ...... Maria Miles
Jacques ...... Joe Dunlop
Guy Benoits ...... Michael Kilgarriff
Nini ...... Alice Arnold

Music by Stephen Warbeck.
Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989. Show less