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. Air Date : 21st-Feb-1968

The Royal Danish Ballet performs 'Graduation Ball' in the first of a new series of music and arts features. Air Date : 15th-Oct-1967  Read More

Ted Chapman is a potter who lives in North Wales where nature gives him peace and the materials for his craft. Air Date : 22nd-Oct-1967  Read More

John Duncan reads an essay on Marshall McLuhan and McLuhan comments. Air Date : 29th-Oct-1967  Read More

Air Date : 5th-Nov-1967  Read More

Alexander Frere talks to Margaret Lane in the first of two conversations. Air Date : 12th-Nov-1967  Read More

Julius Katchen plays Brahms' 'Variation and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24'. Air Date : 19th-Nov-1967  Read More

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. Air Date : 26th-Nov-1967  Read More

A presentation of the East German film of 'Romeo und Juliet', the Tchaikovsky ballet,choreographed by Juan Corelli. Air Date : 3rd-Dec-1967  Read More

A reconstruction of the 1714 All Fools' Day Scriblerus Club dinner party to mark the tercentenary of Jonathan Swift's birth. Air Date : 10th-Dec-1967  Read More

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. Air Date : 17th-Dec-1967  Read More

A recreation of the music hall artist Dan Leno's semi-imaginary autobiography. Air Date : 3rd-Jan-1968  Read More

Edward Gordon Craig influenced the course of European theatre, yet his work is hardly acknowledged in England. Air Date : 10th-Jan-1968  Read More

The Vegh Quartet plays Bartok's 'String Quartet No. 1, in A minor '. Air Date : 17th-Jan-1968  Read More

Jeremy James reports on the oldest established event of its kind -The All-England Sunshine Dancing Competition for Children. Air Date : 24th-Jan-1968  Read More

The poet John Betjeman journeys from Marble Arch to Edgeware, reciting specially-written poems and pointing out areas of interest. Air Date : 31st-Jan-1968  Read More

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. Air Date : 21st-Feb-1968  Read More

Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, the Israeli duo pianist duo, play pieces by Saint-Saens, Milhaud, and Lutoslawski. Air Date : 28th-Feb-1968  Read More

John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts. Air Date : 6th-Mar-1968  Read More

A memorial for actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE. Air Date : 20th-Mar-1968  Read More

Robin Ray discusses some of the problems which face musical prodigies. Air Date : 27th-Mar-1968  Read More

How John Nash planned London. Air Date : 3rd-Apr-1968  Read More

Simon Preston plays Liszt's 'Organ Fantasy and Fugue'. Air Date : 10th-Apr-1968  Read More

A film about Yukio Mishima, Japan's best-selling novelist, Air Date : 17th-Apr-1968  Read More

A re-presentation of Kurt Jooss' antiwar dance drama. Air Date : 24th-Apr-1968  Read More