Season 1

1967-10-15

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

1967-10-22

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

1967-10-29

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

1967-11-05

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1967-11-12

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

1967-11-19

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

1967-11-26

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.

1967-12-03

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

1967-12-10

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

1967-12-17

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.

1968-01-03

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

1968-01-10

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

1968-01-17

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

1968-01-24

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

1968-01-31

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

1968-02-21

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.

1968-02-28

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

1968-03-06

John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.

1968-03-20

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

1968-03-27

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

1968-04-03

How John Nash planned London.

1968-04-10

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

1968-04-17

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

1968-04-24

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