Contrasts
1967 · 1 season · 24 episodes · Ended · BBC One
This show deals with various music & poetry discussions.
Episodes
- S01E01Graduation Ball1967-10-15
The Royal Danish Ballet performs 'Graduation Ball' in the first of a new series of music and arts features.
- S01E02Ted1967-10-22
Ted Chapman is a potter who lives in North Wales where nature gives him peace and the materials for his craft.
- S01E03McLuhan Tutorial1967-10-29
John Duncan reads an essay on Marshall McLuhan and McLuhan comments.
- S01E04Music of India1967-11-05
- S01E05The Man Behind the Book, Part 1: The Writers of the Twenties1967-11-12
Alexander Frere talks to Margaret Lane in the first of two conversations.
- S01E06Julius Katchen1967-11-19
Julius Katchen plays Brahms' 'Variation and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24'.
- S01E07Concepts of Freedom1967-11-26
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.
- S01E08Romeo and Juliet1967-12-03
A presentation of the East German film of 'Romeo und Juliet', the Tchaikovsky ballet,choreographed by Juan Corelli.
- S01E09The Scriblerus Club1967-12-10
A reconstruction of the 1714 All Fools' Day Scriblerus Club dinner party to mark the tercentenary of Jonathan Swift's birth.
- S01E10The Pre-Raphaelites1967-12-17
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.
- S01E11Dan Leno, Hys Book1968-01-03
A recreation of the music hall artist Dan Leno's semi-imaginary autobiography.
- S01E12Take on Craig1968-01-10
Edward Gordon Craig influenced the course of European theatre, yet his work is hardly acknowledged in England.
- S01E13The Vegh Quartet1968-01-17
The Vegh Quartet plays Bartok's 'String Quartet No. 1, in A minor '.
- S01E14The Sunshine1968-01-24
Jeremy James reports on the oldest established event of its kind -The All-England Sunshine Dancing Competition for Children.
- S01E15Marble Arch to Edgware1968-01-31
The poet John Betjeman journeys from Marble Arch to Edgeware, reciting specially-written poems and pointing out areas of interest.
- S01E16Famous Gossips: The Years with Mother1968-02-21
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.
- S01E17Episode 171968-02-28
Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, the Israeli duo pianist duo, play pieces by Saint-Saens, Milhaud, and Lutoslawski.
- S01E18Who Is Ahead of Whom?1968-03-06
John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.
- S01E19The Knight Has Been Unruly1968-03-20
A memorial for actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE.
- S01E20Small Wonder1968-03-27
Robin Ray discusses some of the problems which face musical prodigies.
- S01E21Bold Nash1968-04-03
How John Nash planned London.
- S01E22Simon Preston1968-04-10
Simon Preston plays Liszt's 'Organ Fantasy and Fugue'.
- S01E23A Writer and His Sword1968-04-17
A film about Yukio Mishima, Japan's best-selling novelist,
- S01E24The Green Table1968-04-24
A re-presentation of Kurt Jooss' antiwar dance drama.
