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World Service,03 Sep 1981,28 mins

Satire on stage and page in Edinburgh

Meridian

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Final report from the Edinburgh International Festival starts with a review of a new "noisy, brawling" production of John Gay's Beggar's Opera by Scottish Opera. Plus, works by artist and caricaturist Honoré Daumier at the Royal Scottish Academy, prize-winning Dances of Love and Death from London Contemporary Dance Theatre, and a tin violin. Presenter: Robert Logan.

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