18 May 1990
Bird on a Wire
An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him, and the bad guys are back for revenge.
Patience
A 1995 Opera Australia performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic operetta, recorded at the Sydney Opera House. Bunthorne, a poet worshiped by every lady he meets, loves only one woman: Patience. But Patience does not share the other women's fascination with Bunthorne. She loves Archibald, her childhood friend who is now also a poet.
Top Billed Cast
Christine Douglas Patience
Heather Begg The Lady Jane
Anthony Warlow Archibald Grosvenor
Dennis Olsen Reginald Bunthorne
John Germain Colonel Calverley
Graeme Ewer The Duke of Dunstable
Jennifer Bermingham The Lady Angela
Roxane Hislop The Lady Saphir
Neil Kirkby Major Murgatroyd
Toni Powell The Lady Ella
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