Graduation Ball

S01 E01 • Sunday, Oct 15, 1967 • Oct 15

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

Ted

S01 E02 • Sunday, Oct 22, 1967 • Oct 22

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

McLuhan Tutorial

S01 E03 • Sunday, Oct 29, 1967 • Oct 29

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

Music of India

S01 E04 • Sunday, Nov 5, 1967 • Nov 5

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

S01 E05 • Sunday, Nov 12, 1967 • Nov 12

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

Julius Katchen

S01 E06 • Sunday, Nov 19, 1967 • Nov 19

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

Concepts of Freedom

S01 E07 • Sunday, Nov 26, 1967 • Nov 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.

Romeo and Juliet

S01 E08 • Sunday, Dec 3, 1967 • Dec 3

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

The Scriblerus Club

S01 E09 • Sunday, Dec 10, 1967 • Dec 10

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

The Pre-Raphaelites

S01 E10 • Sunday, Dec 17, 1967 • Dec 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.

Dan Leno, Hys Book

S01 E11 • Wednesday, Jan 3, 1968 • Jan 3

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

Take on Craig

S01 E12 • Wednesday, Jan 10, 1968 • Jan 10

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

The Vegh Quartet

S01 E13 • Wednesday, Jan 17, 1968 • Jan 17

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

The Sunshine

S01 E14 • Wednesday, Jan 24, 1968 • Jan 24

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

Marble Arch to Edgware

S01 E15 • Wednesday, Jan 31, 1968 • Jan 31

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

S01 E16 • Wednesday, Feb 21, 1968 • Feb 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.

Episode 17

S01 E17 • Wednesday, Feb 28, 1968 • Feb 28

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

Who Is Ahead of Whom?

S01 E18 • Wednesday, Mar 6, 1968 • Mar 6

John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.

The Knight Has Been Unruly

S01 E19 • Wednesday, Mar 20, 1968 • Mar 20

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

Small Wonder

S01 E20 • Wednesday, Mar 27, 1968 • Mar 27

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

Bold Nash

S01 E21 • Wednesday, Apr 3, 1968 • Apr 3

How John Nash planned London.

Simon Preston

S01 E22 • Wednesday, Apr 10, 1968 • Apr 10

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

A Writer and His Sword

S01 E23 • Wednesday, Apr 17, 1968 • Apr 17

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

The Green Table

S01 E24 • Wednesday, Apr 24, 1968 • Apr 24

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