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1. From Tangoing to Keeping Watch

Tango dancers and DJs. Some bleakly funny tales of urban life after dark. Featuring Paul Merton and Julian Clary. From 2001.

Tango dancers, DJs and a neighbourhood watch.

Bleak, funny, sultry, bitter, poignant - the first of a four-part series of brief visits to a city, late at night.

Starring:

Paul Merton
Richard Wilson
Liz Smith
Julian Clary
Meera Syal
Tilly Vosburgh
Holly Johnson.

Writen by Mandy Wheeler, Joss Bennathan, Tilly Vosburgh, Rob Colley and Paul Merton.

Sound engineer Richard Brough provides a variety of tones and emissions reflecting late-night city life, from crying babies to midnight shoppers, cabbies to sex workers.

Music by Robert Katz

Producer: Sarah Parkinson

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in June 2001.

15 minutes

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