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The enduring Appeal of Fairies and the Uncanny
Ghouls, giants, goblins and fairies populate the pages of a new book of English folk tales
Review of Everyman's Book of English Folk Tales by Sybil Marshall, stories full of fairies, giants and premonitions illustrated by John Lawrence's woodcuts. Richard Cork reviews an exhibition of punk music graphics in London. Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance has had a Hollywood-Broadway makeover and is is taking New York by storm. Report from the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, where the top prize went to the Polish film Tango, directed by Zbigniew Rybczynski.
Presenter: Gillian Reynolds.
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