Timothy Bateson
Contrasts (1967)
Season 1
This show deals with various music & poetry discussions.
Released Oct. 15, 1967
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Music
Keywords: imdb.rifleman
Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Graduation Ball
The Royal Danish Ballet performs 'Graduation Ball' in the first of a new series of music and arts features.
Oct. 15, 1967, midnight
S1E2 - Ted
Ted Chapman is a potter who lives in North Wales where nature gives him peace and the materials for his craft.
Oct. 22, 1967, midnight
S1E3 - McLuhan Tutorial
John Duncan reads an essay on Marshall McLuhan and McLuhan comments.
Oct. 29, 1967, midnight
S1E4 - Music of India
Nov. 5, 1967, midnight
S1E5 - The Man Behind the Book, Part 1: The Writers of the Twenties
Alexander Frere talks to Margaret Lane in the first of two conversations.
Nov. 12, 1967, midnight
S1E6 - Julius Katchen
Julius Katchen plays Brahms' 'Variation and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24'.
Nov. 19, 1967, midnight
S1E7 - Concepts of Freedom
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.
Nov. 26, 1967, midnight
S1E8 - Romeo and Juliet
A presentation of the East German film of 'Romeo und Juliet', the Tchaikovsky ballet,choreographed by Juan Corelli.
Dec. 3, 1967, midnight
S1E9 - The Scriblerus Club
A reconstruction of the 1714 All Fools' Day Scriblerus Club dinner party to mark the tercentenary of Jonathan Swift's birth.
Dec. 10, 1967, midnight
S1E10 - The Pre-Raphaelites
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.
Dec. 17, 1967, midnight
S1E11 - Dan Leno, Hys Book
A recreation of the music hall artist Dan Leno's semi-imaginary autobiography.
Jan. 3, 1968, midnight
S1E12 - Take on Craig
Edward Gordon Craig influenced the course of European theatre, yet his work is hardly acknowledged in England.
Jan. 10, 1968, midnight
S1E13 - The Vegh Quartet
The Vegh Quartet plays Bartok's 'String Quartet No. 1, in A minor '.
Jan. 17, 1968, midnight
S1E14 - The Sunshine
Jeremy James reports on the oldest established event of its kind -The All-England Sunshine Dancing Competition for Children.
Jan. 24, 1968, midnight
S1E15 - Marble Arch to Edgware
The poet John Betjeman journeys from Marble Arch to Edgeware, reciting specially-written poems and pointing out areas of interest.
Jan. 31, 1968, midnight
S1E16 - Famous Gossips: The Years with Mother
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.
Feb. 21, 1968, midnight
S1E17 - Episode 17
Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, the Israeli duo pianist duo, play pieces by Saint-Saens, Milhaud, and Lutoslawski.
Feb. 28, 1968, midnight
S1E18 - Who Is Ahead of Whom?
John Berger and Alexander Cockburn discuss extremism in the arts.
March 6, 1968, midnight
S1E19 - The Knight Has Been Unruly
A memorial for actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE.
March 20, 1968, midnight
S1E20 - Small Wonder
Robin Ray discusses some of the problems which face musical prodigies.
March 27, 1968, midnight
S1E21 - Bold Nash
How John Nash planned London.
April 3, 1968, midnight
S1E22 - Simon Preston
Simon Preston plays Liszt's 'Organ Fantasy and Fugue'.
April 10, 1968, midnight
S1E23 - A Writer and His Sword
A film about Yukio Mishima, Japan's best-selling novelist,
April 17, 1968, midnight
S1E24 - The Green Table
A re-presentation of Kurt Jooss' antiwar dance drama.
April 24, 1968, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Oct. 15, 1967
Last Air Date: April 24, 1968, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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