Contrasts

E1 Episode 1: Graduation Ball

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• Oct 15, 1967

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

E2 Episode 2: Ted

• Oct 22, 1967

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

E3 Episode 3: McLuhan Tutorial

• Oct 29, 1967

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

E4 Episode 4: Music of India

• Nov 5, 1967

E5 Episode 5: The Man Behind the Book, Part 1: The Writers of the Twenties

• Nov 12, 1967

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

E6 Episode 6: Julius Katchen

• Nov 19, 1967

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

E7 Episode 7: Concepts of Freedom

• Nov 26, 1967

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.

E8 Episode 8: Romeo and Juliet

• Dec 3, 1967

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

E9 Episode 9: The Scriblerus Club

• Dec 10, 1967

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

E10 Episode 10: The Pre-Raphaelites

• Dec 17, 1967

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.

E11 Episode 11: Dan Leno, Hys Book

• Jan 3, 1968

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

E12 Episode 12: Take on Craig

• Jan 10, 1968

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

E13 Episode 13: The Vegh Quartet

• Jan 17, 1968

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

E14 Episode 14: The Sunshine

• Jan 24, 1968

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

E15 Episode 15: Marble Arch to Edgware

• Jan 31, 1968

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

E16 Episode 16: Famous Gossips: The Years with Mother

• Feb 21, 1968

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.

E17 Episode 17: Episode 17

• Feb 28, 1968

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

E18 Episode 18: Who Is Ahead of Whom?

• Mar 6, 1968

John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.

E19 Episode 19: The Knight Has Been Unruly

• Mar 20, 1968

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

E20 Episode 20: Small Wonder

• Mar 27, 1968

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

E21 Episode 21: Bold Nash

• Apr 3, 1968

How John Nash planned London.

E22 Episode 22: Simon Preston

• Apr 10, 1968

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

E23 Episode 23: A Writer and His Sword

• Apr 17, 1968

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

E24 Episode 24: The Green Table

• Apr 24, 1968

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