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Season 1

1967 · 24 episodes

  1. 1. Graduation Ball

    1967-10-15

    The Royal Danish Ballet performs 'Graduation Ball' in the first of a new series of music and arts features.

  2. 2. Ted

    1967-10-22

    Ted Chapman is a potter who lives in North Wales where nature gives him peace and the materials for his craft.

  3. 3. McLuhan Tutorial

    1967-10-29

    John Duncan reads an essay on Marshall McLuhan and McLuhan comments.

  4. 4. Music of India

    1967-11-05

  5. 5. The Man Behind the Book, Part 1: The Writers of the Twenties

    1967-11-12

    Alexander Frere talks to Margaret Lane in the first of two conversations.

  6. 6. Julius Katchen

    1967-11-19

    Julius Katchen plays Brahms' 'Variation and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24'.

  7. 7. Concepts of Freedom

    1967-11-26

    A live studio discussion on the freedom of writers and artists and their role in Russian and British societies between Alexander Chakovsky and Malcolm Muggeridge.

  8. 8. Romeo and Juliet

    1967-12-03

    A presentation of the East German film of 'Romeo und Juliet', the Tchaikovsky ballet,choreographed by Juan Corelli.

  9. 9. The Scriblerus Club

    1967-12-10

    A reconstruction of the 1714 All Fools' Day Scriblerus Club dinner party to mark the tercentenary of Jonathan Swift's birth.

  10. 10. The Pre-Raphaelites

    1967-12-17

    The story of a group of young Mid-Victorian painters who revolted against the established order and banded together under the leadership of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

  11. 11. Dan Leno, Hys Book

    1968-01-03

    A recreation of the music hall artist Dan Leno's semi-imaginary autobiography.

  12. 12. Take on Craig

    1968-01-10

    Edward Gordon Craig influenced the course of European theatre, yet his work is hardly acknowledged in England.

  13. 13. The Vegh Quartet

    1968-01-17

    The Vegh Quartet plays Bartok's 'String Quartet No. 1, in A minor '.

  14. 14. The Sunshine

    1968-01-24

    Jeremy James reports on the oldest established event of its kind -The All-England Sunshine Dancing Competition for Children.

  15. 15. Marble Arch to Edgware

    1968-01-31

    The poet John Betjeman journeys from Marble Arch to Edgeware, reciting specially-written poems and pointing out areas of interest.

  16. 16. Famous Gossips: The Years with Mother

    1968-02-21

    Alan Bennett, portraying the English writer Augustus Hare, recollects stories about Jenny Lind, Sam Johnson, Lord Nelson, Oscar Wilde and more. Adapted from Hare's autobiography. Originally broadcast in 1965.

  17. 17. Episode 17

    1968-02-28

    Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, the Israeli duo pianist duo, play pieces by Saint-Saens, Milhaud, and Lutoslawski.

  18. 18. Who Is Ahead of Whom?

    1968-03-06

    John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.

  19. 19. The Knight Has Been Unruly

    1968-03-20

    A memorial for actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE.

  20. 20. Small Wonder

    1968-03-27

    Robin Ray discusses some of the problems which face musical prodigies.

  21. 21. Bold Nash

    1968-04-03

    How John Nash planned London.

  22. 22. Simon Preston

    1968-04-10

    Simon Preston plays Liszt's 'Organ Fantasy and Fugue'.

  23. 23. A Writer and His Sword

    1968-04-17

    A film about Yukio Mishima, Japan's best-selling novelist,

  24. 24. The Green Table

    1968-04-24

    A re-presentation of Kurt Jooss' antiwar dance drama.

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