Contrasts

1967 - 1968

Graduation Ball

15th October 1967

Episode 1

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

Ted

22nd October 1967

Episode 2

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

McLuhan Tutorial

29th October 1967

Episode 3

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

Music of India

5th November 1967

Episode 4

No overview available.

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

12th November 1967

Episode 5

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

Julius Katchen

19th November 1967

Episode 6

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

Concepts of Freedom

26th November 1967

Episode 7

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.

Romeo and Juliet

3rd December 1967

Episode 8

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

The Scriblerus Club

10th December 1967

Episode 9

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

The Pre-Raphaelites

17th December 1967

Episode 10

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.

Dan Leno, Hys Book

3rd January 1968

Episode 11

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

Take on Craig

10th January 1968

Episode 12

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

The Vegh Quartet

17th January 1968

Episode 13

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

The Sunshine

24th January 1968

Episode 14

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

Marble Arch to Edgware

31st January 1968

Episode 15

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

Famous Gossips: The Years with Mother

21st February 1968

Episode 16

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.

Episode 17

28th February 1968

Episode 17

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

Who Is Ahead of Whom?

6th March 1968

Episode 18

John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.

The Knight Has Been Unruly

20th March 1968

Episode 19

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

Small Wonder

27th March 1968

Episode 20

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

Bold Nash

3rd April 1968

Episode 21

How John Nash planned London.

Simon Preston

10th April 1968

Episode 22

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

A Writer and His Sword

17th April 1968

Episode 23

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

The Green Table

24th April 1968

Episode 24

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

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