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World Service,08 May 1992,29 mins

Marlene Dietrich - a tribute

Meridian

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Tribute to German-born actress, singer and entertainer Marlene Dietrich, who recently died in Paris on Wednesday at the age of 92 (she herself claimed to be 90). Producer and personal friend Mark Furness remembers her, and dramatist Pam Gems talks about adapting the classic Dietrich film The Blue Angel - for the stage: review of American film Basic Instinct: director Richard Jones on Moliere's French satire Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: talking with jazz legend Sonny Rollins in London.

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