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Omnibus[17/10/82] (Original title)
Date: 17 October 1982 (Television)

Country: United Kingdom

Poppy Studio Director: Christopher Swann, Ann Turner

Synopsis: Includes item on 'Poppy', the RSC's production of Peter Nichols' musical about the Chinese Opium Wars. Composer Monty Norman talks about writing the score. The writer and critic David Thompson presents an item on landscape painter John Sell Cotman and visits some of the Norfolk and North Yorkshire locations where he lived and worked.

Genre:
Anthology

Subjects:
Poppy (musical), Norman, Monty (1928- ), Cotman, John Sell (1782-1842)

Series title:

TV Transmissions
Date: 17 October 1982Broadcast channel: BBC1Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 22:10-23:00Runtime: 50 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound