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October 15, 1967

Season 1

01. Graduation Ball

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

October 15, 1967

02. Ted

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

October 22, 1967

03. McLuhan Tutorial

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

October 29, 1967

04. Music of India

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November 5, 1967

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

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

November 12, 1967

06. Julius Katchen

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

November 19, 1967

07. 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.

November 26, 1967

08. Romeo and Juliet

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

December 3, 1967

09. The Scriblerus Club

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

December 10, 1967

10. 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.

December 17, 1967

11. Dan Leno, Hys Book

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

January 3, 1968

12. Take on Craig

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

January 10, 1968

13. The Vegh Quartet

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

January 17, 1968

14. The Sunshine

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

January 24, 1968

15. Marble Arch to Edgware

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

January 31, 1968

16. 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.

February 21, 1968

17. Episode 17

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

February 28, 1968

18. Who Is Ahead of Whom?

John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.

March 6, 1968

19. The Knight Has Been Unruly

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

March 20, 1968

20. Small Wonder

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

March 27, 1968

21. Bold Nash

How John Nash planned London.

April 3, 1968

22. Simon Preston

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

April 10, 1968

23. A Writer and His Sword

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

April 17, 1968

24. The Green Table

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

April 24, 1968