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20s SEASON Dancing on a Tightrope

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A reassessment of Jean Cocteau , poet, draughtsman, dramatist, cinéaste, novelist and diarist, friend of Picasso and.Diaghilev and perpetual enfant terrible. Was he a dilettante or a genius, innovator or imitator? Richard Mayne looks again at the life and the legend, with archive recordings of Cocteau and contributions from friends and collaborators including 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 , Prof Pierre Caizergues, editor of Cocteau's work, and Michael Sheringham , Professor of French at Kent University. Producer Judith Bumpus

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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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Prof Pierre
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Michael Sheringham
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Judith Bumpus
Source: Radio Times

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