Devised by Carl Wildman
Presented by John Rowe and Pamela Stirling.
Poet, novelist, playwright, film-maker, designer, socialite, Jean Cocteau died ten years ago today. A great showman, he shed his artistic skin again and again from the early 20s through to the early 60s. A prolific, often frivolous, sophisticate, he created his own poetic world.
The programme is an evocation of the man and an attempt to put his brilliant, if uneven, work into perspective. With the views and voices of Jean Cocteau, Edwige Feuillere, Jean Marais, Pierre Fresnais, Sir Cecil Beaton, Raymond Mortimer, Tamara Karsavina and others.
Readers David Brierley, Bernard Finch and Rolf Lefebvre.
("The Infernal Machine": 14 Oct)
followed by an interlude