Contrasts

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.

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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 '.