Eric Pringle - The Last Piano Player
2020: Technology rules supreme. An elderly musician is invited on TV to justify his existence. Stars Bernard Cribbins. From 2000.
It’s the year 2020, and the world of technology rules supreme.
One of its successes is the Simon Swain show whose contestants fight for survival in a desperate bid to justify their existence.
Meanwhile, in an empty Norfolk seaside resort, a lone piano player - a relic from a lost world - plays to his dead wife in a deserted ballroom. His life is transformed when he is invited on the show.
Bernard Cribbins and Phillip Jackson star in Eric Pringles’ futuristic drama.
Jack …… Bernard Cribbins
Simon …… Philip Jackson
Kate …… Becky Hindley
Paul …… Andrew Wincott
Piano: Stuart Hutchinson
Director: Cherry Cookson
First broadcast on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio in August 2000.
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