All About Cleo - BBC 4 (Friday Oct. 28)

This evening (Friday) BBC 4 devotes the best part of three hours to Cleo Laine. On Dame Cleo's 95th birthday there is a 'look back at the singer's finest moments on the BBC'. Starting at 9:00pm with Cleo Laine at the BBC there is a series of duets with the likes of John Williams, Dudley Moore, Tony Bennett and her late husband, John 'Johnny' Dankworth. At ten, Show of the Week: Cleo Laine features the Dankworths in a 1974 concert from London's Collegiate Theatre and, at five to eleven, Sir John Dankworth at the BBC focuses upon the bandleader/composer/saxophonist from the late fifties (Dankworth with Duke Ellington!) through to appearing on Later...with Jools Holland in 2007. Russell