Season 1
24 episodes · Oct 15, 1967
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- S1E1
Graduation Ball
Oct 15, 1967The Royal Danish Ballet performs 'Graduation Ball' in the first of a new series of music and arts features.
- S1E2
Ted
Oct 22, 1967Ted Chapman is a potter who lives in North Wales where nature gives him peace and the materials for his craft.
- S1E3
McLuhan Tutorial
Oct 29, 1967John Duncan reads an essay on Marshall McLuhan and McLuhan comments.
- S1E5
The Man Behind the Book, Part 1: The Writers of the Twenties
Nov 12, 1967Alexander Frere talks to Margaret Lane in the first of two conversations.
- S1E6
Julius Katchen
Nov 19, 1967Julius Katchen plays Brahms' 'Variation and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24'.
- S1E7
Concepts of Freedom
Nov 26, 1967A live studio discussion on the freedom of writers and artists and their role in Russian and British societies between Alexander Chakovsky and Malcolm Muggeridge.
- S1E8
Romeo and Juliet
Dec 3, 1967A presentation of the East German film of 'Romeo und Juliet', the Tchaikovsky ballet,choreographed by Juan Corelli.
- S1E9
The Scriblerus Club
Dec 10, 1967A reconstruction of the 1714 All Fools' Day Scriblerus Club dinner party to mark the tercentenary of Jonathan Swift's birth.
- S1E10
The Pre-Raphaelites
Dec 17, 1967The 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.
- S1E11
Dan Leno, Hys Book
Jan 3, 1968A recreation of the music hall artist Dan Leno's semi-imaginary autobiography.
- S1E12
Take on Craig
Jan 10, 1968Edward Gordon Craig influenced the course of European theatre, yet his work is hardly acknowledged in England.
- S1E13
The Vegh Quartet
Jan 17, 1968The Vegh Quartet plays Bartok's 'String Quartet No. 1, in A minor '.
- S1E14
The Sunshine
Jan 24, 1968Jeremy James reports on the oldest established event of its kind -The All-England Sunshine Dancing Competition for Children.
- S1E15
Marble Arch to Edgware
Jan 31, 1968The poet John Betjeman journeys from Marble Arch to Edgeware, reciting specially-written poems and pointing out areas of interest.
- S1E16
Famous Gossips: The Years with Mother
Feb 21, 1968Alan 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.
- S1E17
Episode 17
Feb 28, 1968Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, the Israeli duo pianist duo, play pieces by Saint-Saens, Milhaud, and Lutoslawski.
- S1E18
Who Is Ahead of Whom?
Mar 6, 1968John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.
- S1E19
The Knight Has Been Unruly
Mar 20, 1968A memorial for actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE.
- S1E20
Small Wonder
Mar 27, 1968Robin Ray discusses some of the problems which face musical prodigies.
- S1E23
A Writer and His Sword
Apr 17, 1968A film about Yukio Mishima, Japan's best-selling novelist,