John Lanting

A family owning a traditional flea circus tries to survive next to the new attraction on the fair.

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John Lanting: Koning van de klucht

A woman disguises herself as a man to avoid prosecution for murdering her lover fifteen years ago. She is the last living member of a wealthy Vienna family, and has spent the years after the murder traveling Europe with her female servant. Her travels provide her with an anonymous cloak that allows her freedom of movement but little peace of mind. Nearing middle age, the guilt and weariness of an empty life has her contemplating suicide as the only way out of her dilemma.

A nearly 30 minute long conversation in a living room party. Unlike in a regular TV play the jabber conversation can hardly be understood. Sometimes a line or two can be picked up. There's an intermezzo when Schippers alias Jacques Plafond comes to play one of his 'modern' piano pieces, to the disgust of the party's guests, whose chattering in the end isn't far removed from the piano play.

An original series by well known Dutch writer Paul Biegel, later released as a book, A doctor is asked to cure a Duke from his 'Gold Fever' by way of being sent a chest full of gold. Intrigued the doctor finds himself on a journey full of surprises