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This film, made to celebrate his 90th birthday last October, explores the ambiguous personality of the world's most famous living artist. It tells the story of his life, his loves, his wars, his rise to fame through his work, and in discussion with his friend and biographer Roland Penrose.

The programme includes the latest and as yet unexhibited folio of Picasso's etchings, on which he was still at work in his 90th year.

Contributors

Interviewee:
Pablo Picasso
Interviewer:
Roland Penrose
Writer/Narrator:
Jim Douglas Henry
Producer:
Lorna Pegram

by Dennis Potter
Six actors in a series of eight plays: Michele Dotrice, Ruth Dunning, Denholm Elliott, Richard Vernon, Dennis Waterman, Billie Whitelaw

Jack is falling apart, going mad. Torn by universal disgust, he sees only the black side of things. And yet he works as an actor in the whiter-than-white world of TV advertising. What can put Jack together again?

Contributors

Writer:
Dennis Potter
Script Editor:
Margaret Hare
Costumes:
Ursula Reid
Make-Up:
Sandra Shepherd
Designer:
Spencer Chapman
Producer:
Roderick Graham
Director:
Alan Bridges
Jack:
Denholm Elliott
Old lady:
Ruth Dunning
Nurse:
Nicolette Pendrell
Judy:
Billie Whitelaw
Staff nurse:
Maureen Nelson
Dr Whitman:
Richard Vernon
Dr Bilson:
Dennis Waterman
Colin:
Bernard Hepton
Veronica:
Michele Dotrice

BBC Two England

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