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This show deals with various music & poetry discussions.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Graduation Ball
15-10-1967The Royal Danish Ballet performs 'Graduation Ball' in the first of a new series of music and arts features.
- Ep 2
2.Ted
22-10-1967Ted Chapman is a potter who lives in North Wales where nature gives him peace and the materials for his craft.
- Ep 3
3.McLuhan Tutorial
29-10-1967John Duncan reads an essay on Marshall McLuhan and McLuhan comments.
- Ep 4
4.Music of India
05-11-1967 - Ep 5
5.The Man Behind the Book, Part 1: The Writers of the Twenties
12-11-1967Alexander Frere talks to Margaret Lane in the first of two conversations.
- Ep 6
6.Julius Katchen
19-11-1967Julius Katchen plays Brahms' 'Variation and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24'.
- Ep 7
7.Concepts of Freedom
26-11-1967A live studio discussion on the freedom of writers and artists and their role in Russian and British societies between Alexander Chakovsky and Malcolm Muggeridge.
- Ep 8
8.Romeo and Juliet
03-12-1967A presentation of the East German film of 'Romeo und Juliet', the Tchaikovsky ballet,choreographed by Juan Corelli.
- Ep 9
9.The Scriblerus Club
10-12-1967A reconstruction of the 1714 All Fools' Day Scriblerus Club dinner party to mark the tercentenary of Jonathan Swift's birth.
- Ep 10
10.The Pre-Raphaelites
17-12-1967The 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.
- Ep 11
11.Dan Leno, Hys Book
03-01-1968A recreation of the music hall artist Dan Leno's semi-imaginary autobiography.
- Ep 12
12.Take on Craig
10-01-1968Edward Gordon Craig influenced the course of European theatre, yet his work is hardly acknowledged in England.
- Ep 13
13.The Vegh Quartet
17-01-1968The Vegh Quartet plays Bartok's 'String Quartet No. 1, in A minor '.
- Ep 14
14.The Sunshine
24-01-1968Jeremy James reports on the oldest established event of its kind -The All-England Sunshine Dancing Competition for Children.
- Ep 15
15.Marble Arch to Edgware
31-01-1968The poet John Betjeman journeys from Marble Arch to Edgeware, reciting specially-written poems and pointing out areas of interest.
- Ep 16
16.Famous Gossips: The Years with Mother
21-02-1968Alan 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. O...
- Ep 17
17.Episode 17
28-02-1968Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, the Israeli duo pianist duo, play pieces by Saint-Saens, Milhaud, and Lutoslawski.
- Ep 18
18.Who Is Ahead of Whom?
06-03-1968John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.
- Ep 19
19.The Knight Has Been Unruly
20-03-1968A memorial for actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE.
- Ep 20
20.Small Wonder
27-03-1968Robin Ray discusses some of the problems which face musical prodigies.
- Ep 21
21.Bold Nash
03-04-1968How John Nash planned London.
- Ep 22
22.Simon Preston
10-04-1968Simon Preston plays Liszt's 'Organ Fantasy and Fugue'.
- Ep 23
23.A Writer and His Sword
17-04-1968A film about Yukio Mishima, Japan's best-selling novelist,
- Ep 24
24.The Green Table
24-04-1968A re-presentation of Kurt Jooss' antiwar dance drama.
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