2nd House

An anthology for October, highlighting some of the month's events in music, theatre, visual arts, books and film.

A documentary entertainment spoken, sung, written and performed by former National Servicemen including Acker Bilk, Ronnie Corbett, Nicholas Harman , Michael Parkinson , novelist G...

An anthology for November, highlighting some of the month's events in music, theatre, visual arts, books, and film.

Features some of the personalities and activities that are thriving in the city of Liverpool today, ten years after the birth of the ' Liverpool scene '.

A special edition featuring Norman Mailer's recently published biography of Marilyn Monroe.

In the spring of 1975 the new National Theatre opens on London's South Bank. Melvyn Bragg looks at the British Theatre, the people who go to it and those who don't.

An anthology for January highlighting some of the month's events in music, books, theatre, film and the visual arts.

The first TV appearance of a newly formed trio, S.O.S., which combines three of the finest British jazz saxophonists. Edwin Mullins reviews the current exhibition at the Tate Galle...

A short story by Chekhov, revolving around the confrontation of ideas between Anton, a landscape painter, and Lydia, a young aristocratic girl who devotes her life to good works, i...

A disagreement with the Arts Council has brought to an end Frank Hauser's association with the Oxford Playhouse, and the winding up of the company he founded 17 years ago to put on...

Jack Common's classic account of a northern working-class childhood - Kiddar's Luck - is soon to be republished. 2nd House looks at some original H. M. Bateman drawings from the cu...

All over the world writers and artists are in conflict with authoritarian rule. 2nd House presents the work of four individuals whose freedom of expression has, for differing reas...

Comedian Les Dawson, a W. C. Fields devotee, presents a collection of hitherto unpublished letters, speeches and sketches from Fields's intended autobiography, due to be published...

Charlie Gillett presents highlights from this year's Sixth International Festival of Country Music at Wembley. Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of the death of the poet Lord Byr...

Melvin Bragg introduces a Cornish poet, an electronic painting, the music of Horslips and The Great Money Trick.

Tonight's 2nd House is devoted entirely to showing the work of independent filmmakers, and discussing their problems, their achievements and their future aims.