This show deals with various music & poetry discussions.
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24 episodes
The Royal Danish Ballet performs 'Graduation Ball' in the first of a new series of music and arts features.
Runtime: N/A minTed Chapman is a potter who lives in North Wales where nature gives him peace and the materials for his craft.
Runtime: N/A minJohn Duncan reads an essay on Marshall McLuhan and McLuhan comments.
Runtime: N/A minAlexander Frere talks to Margaret Lane in the first of two conversations.
Runtime: N/A minJulius Katchen plays Brahms' 'Variation and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24'.
Runtime: N/A minA live studio discussion on the freedom of writers and artists and their role in Russian and British societies between Alexander Chakovsky and Malcolm Muggeridge.
Runtime: N/A minA presentation of the East German film of 'Romeo und Juliet', the Tchaikovsky ballet,choreographed by Juan Corelli.
Runtime: N/A minA reconstruction of the 1714 All Fools' Day Scriblerus Club dinner party to mark the tercentenary of Jonathan Swift's birth.
Runtime: N/A minThe 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.
Runtime: N/A minA recreation of the music hall artist Dan Leno's semi-imaginary autobiography.
Runtime: N/A minEdward Gordon Craig influenced the course of European theatre, yet his work is hardly acknowledged in England.
Runtime: N/A minThe Vegh Quartet plays Bartok's 'String Quartet No. 1, in A minor '.
Runtime: N/A minJeremy James reports on the oldest established event of its kind -The All-England Sunshine Dancing Competition for Children.
Runtime: N/A minThe poet John Betjeman journeys from Marble Arch to Edgeware, reciting specially-written poems and pointing out areas of interest.
Runtime: N/A minAlan 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.
Runtime: N/A minBracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, the Israeli duo pianist duo, play pieces by Saint-Saens, Milhaud, and Lutoslawski.
Runtime: N/A minJohn Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.
Runtime: N/A minA memorial for actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE.
Runtime: N/A minRobin Ray discusses some of the problems which face musical prodigies.
Runtime: N/A minHow John Nash planned London.
Runtime: N/A minSimon Preston plays Liszt's 'Organ Fantasy and Fugue'.
Runtime: N/A minA film about Yukio Mishima, Japan's best-selling novelist,
Runtime: N/A minA re-presentation of Kurt Jooss' antiwar dance drama.
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