The series
This show deals with various music & poetry discussions.
Episodes
Season 1 · 24 episodes · 1967
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Episode 115 Oct 1967
Graduation Ball
The Royal Danish Ballet performs 'Graduation Ball' in the first of a new series of music and arts features.
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Episode 222 Oct 1967
Ted
Ted Chapman is a potter who lives in North Wales where nature gives him peace and the materials for his craft.
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Episode 329 Oct 1967
McLuhan Tutorial
John Duncan reads an essay on Marshall McLuhan and McLuhan comments.
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Episode 45 Nov 1967
Music of India
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Episode 512 Nov 1967
The Man Behind the Book, Part 1: The Writers of the Twenties
Alexander Frere talks to Margaret Lane in the first of two conversations.
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Episode 619 Nov 1967
Julius Katchen
Julius Katchen plays Brahms' 'Variation and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24'.
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Episode 726 Nov 1967
Concepts of Freedom
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.
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Episode 83 Dec 1967
Romeo and Juliet
A presentation of the East German film of 'Romeo und Juliet', the Tchaikovsky ballet,choreographed by Juan Corelli.
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Episode 910 Dec 1967
The Scriblerus Club
A reconstruction of the 1714 All Fools' Day Scriblerus Club dinner party to mark the tercentenary of Jonathan Swift's birth.
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Episode 1017 Dec 1967
The Pre-Raphaelites
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.
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Episode 113 Jan 1968
Dan Leno, Hys Book
A recreation of the music hall artist Dan Leno's semi-imaginary autobiography.
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Episode 1210 Jan 1968
Take on Craig
Edward Gordon Craig influenced the course of European theatre, yet his work is hardly acknowledged in England.
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Episode 1317 Jan 1968
The Vegh Quartet
The Vegh Quartet plays Bartok's 'String Quartet No. 1, in A minor '.
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Episode 1424 Jan 1968
The Sunshine
Jeremy James reports on the oldest established event of its kind -The All-England Sunshine Dancing Competition for Children.
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Episode 1531 Jan 1968
Marble Arch to Edgware
The poet John Betjeman journeys from Marble Arch to Edgeware, reciting specially-written poems and pointing out areas of interest.
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Episode 1621 Feb 1968
Famous Gossips: The Years with Mother
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.
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Episode 1728 Feb 1968
Episode 17
Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, the Israeli duo pianist duo, play pieces by Saint-Saens, Milhaud, and Lutoslawski.
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Episode 186 Mar 1968
Who Is Ahead of Whom?
John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.
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Episode 1920 Mar 1968
The Knight Has Been Unruly
A memorial for actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE.
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Episode 2027 Mar 1968
Small Wonder
Robin Ray discusses some of the problems which face musical prodigies.
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Episode 213 Apr 1968
Bold Nash
How John Nash planned London.
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Episode 2210 Apr 1968
Simon Preston
Simon Preston plays Liszt's 'Organ Fantasy and Fugue'.
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Episode 2317 Apr 1968
A Writer and His Sword
A film about Yukio Mishima, Japan's best-selling novelist,
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Episode 2424 Apr 1968
The Green Table
A re-presentation of Kurt Jooss' antiwar dance drama.
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