The Royal Danish Ballet performs 'Graduation Ball' in the first of a new series of music and arts features.
Ted Chapman is a potter who lives in North Wales where nature gives him peace and the materials for his craft.
John Duncan reads an essay on Marshall McLuhan and McLuhan comments.
Alexander Frere talks to Margaret Lane in the first of two conversations.
Julius Katchen plays Brahms' 'Variation and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24'.
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.
A presentation of the East German film of 'Romeo und Juliet', the Tchaikovsky ballet,choreographed by Juan Corelli.
A reconstruction of the 1714 All Fools' Day Scriblerus Club dinner party to mark the tercentenary of Jonathan Swift's birth.
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.
A recreation of the music hall artist Dan Leno's semi-imaginary autobiography.
Edward Gordon Craig influenced the course of European theatre, yet his work is hardly acknowledged in England.
The Vegh Quartet plays Bartok's 'String Quartet No. 1, in A minor '.
Jeremy James reports on the oldest established event of its kind -The All-England Sunshine Dancing Competition for Children.
The poet John Betjeman journeys from Marble Arch to Edgeware, reciting specially-written poems and pointing out areas of interest.
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.
Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, the Israeli duo pianist duo, play pieces by Saint-Saens, Milhaud, and Lutoslawski.
John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.
A memorial for actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE.
Robin Ray discusses some of the problems which face musical prodigies.
How John Nash planned London.
Simon Preston plays Liszt's 'Organ Fantasy and Fugue'.
A film about Yukio Mishima, Japan's best-selling novelist,
A re-presentation of Kurt Jooss' antiwar dance drama.
