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The Last Piano Player

Eric Pringle - The Last Piano Player

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2020: Technology rules supreme. An elderly musician goes on TV to justify his existence.

2020: Technology rules supreme. An elderly musician is invited on TV  to justify his existence. Stars Bernard Cribbins. From 2000.

It’s the year 2020, and the world of technology rules supreme. 

One of its successes is the Simon Swain show whose contestants fight for survival in a desperate bid to justify their existence. 

Meanwhile, in an empty Norfolk seaside resort, a lone piano player - a relic from a lost world - plays to his dead wife in a deserted ballroom. His life is transformed when he is invited on the show.

Bernard Cribbins and Phillip Jackson star in Eric Pringles’ futuristic drama.

Jack    ……    Bernard Cribbins
Simon    ……    Philip Jackson
Kate    ……    Becky Hindley
Paul    ……    Andrew Wincott

Piano: Stuart Hutchinson

Director: Cherry Cookson  

First broadcast on BBC Radio in August 2000.

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