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May Belfort

Episode 1 of 4

The Irish singer turned lady of the night. Based on characters from Toulouse-Lautrec's posters. Stars Bonnie Langford.

Four plays by John Peacock based on the characters in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's posters, from the time of Paris’s Belle Epoque.

1: May Belfort
Bonnie Langford plays May Belfort, the girl from Ireland who really only had the one song and who relied more on her beauty than her voice.

May Belfort …. Bonnie Langford
Michael Donovan …. Charles Simpson
Footitt …. Dermot Crowley
May Milton …. Jane Whittenshaw
Angel …. Alice Arnold
Madame Baron …. Irene Sutcliffe
Popo …. Emma Gregory
Pujol …. Eric Allan
With Terence Edmond and Peter Penry Jones.

Music by Stephen Warbeck

Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1991.

45 minutes

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