Season 1
Contrasts
24 EPISODES • 1967
Season 1 of Contrasts was released on October 15 and consists of 24 episodes.

Episodes

1: Graduation Ball
Oct 15, 1967
The Royal Danish Ballet performs 'Graduation Ball' in the first of a new series of music and arts features.
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.
3: McLuhan Tutorial
Oct 29, 1967
John Duncan reads an essay on Marshall McLuhan and McLuhan comments.
4: Music of India
Nov 5, 1967
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.
6: Julius Katchen
Nov 19, 1967
Julius Katchen plays Brahms' 'Variation and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
11: Dan Leno, Hys Book
Jan 3, 1968
A recreation of the music hall artist Dan Leno's semi-imaginary autobiography.
12: Take on Craig
Jan 10, 1968
Edward Gordon Craig influenced the course of European theatre, yet his work is hardly acknowledged in England.
13: The Vegh Quartet
Jan 17, 1968
The Vegh Quartet plays Bartok's 'String Quartet No. 1, in A minor '.
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.
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.
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.
17: Episode 17
Feb 28, 1968
Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, the Israeli duo pianist duo, play pieces by Saint-Saens, Milhaud, and Lutoslawski.
18: Who Is Ahead of Whom?
Mar 6, 1968
John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.
19: The Knight Has Been Unruly
Mar 20, 1968
A memorial for actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE.
20: Small Wonder
Mar 27, 1968
Robin Ray discusses some of the problems which face musical prodigies.
21: Bold Nash
Apr 3, 1968
How John Nash planned London.
22: Simon Preston
Apr 10, 1968
Simon Preston plays Liszt's 'Organ Fantasy and Fugue'.
23: A Writer and His Sword
Apr 17, 1968
A film about Yukio Mishima, Japan's best-selling novelist,
24: The Green Table
Apr 24, 1968
A re-presentation of Kurt Jooss' antiwar dance drama.
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