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September 14, 1958

Season 2

01. Why Cornwall?

Why Cornwall?

A film survey - Barbara Hepworth, Bernard Leech, W.S. Graham, Peter Lanyon, and others give their reasons for living and working in Cornwall

Leonide Massine in the studio

September 14, 1958

02. Backstage at the Rep

Backstage at the Rep

Monitor cameras go behind the scenes in a Northern Repertory Theatre.

Two Different Worlds

Hammersmith Reach through the eyes of the painters Carel Weight and Ruskin Spear.

September 28, 1958

03. Episode 3

Duke Ellington on jazz, with Humphrey Lyttelton and Johnny Dankworth and his Orchestra; Aldous Huxley interviewed by John Lehmann; John Berger discusses three paintings of the nude; and Cilli Wang.

October 12, 1958

04. P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse in an interview filmed in New York

Shadow of Heroes

Extracts from the play with Peggy Ashcroft, Emlyn Williams, Mogens Wieth, Stephen Murray and an interview with the author, Robert Ardrey.

And Aaron Copland on being an American composer.

October 26, 1958

05. The Innocent Eye

The Innocent Eye

A film study of the child's imagination.

November 9, 1958

06. The Living Suburb

The Living Suburb

A filmed report on a new experiment in city design, and an interview with its architects

and William Alwyn on Writing For Films

November 23, 1958

07. Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky talking about his music, his life, and his friends.

December 7, 1958

08. The Face of the Madonna

The Face of the Madonna

as seen by nine great artists.

A Line on Satire

Three points of view from cartoonists - Andre Francois, Osbert Lancaster, Ronald Searle filmed at work in their studios

Circus

A filmed study by John Schlesinger.

December 21, 1958

09. Tyrone Guthrie

Tyrone Guthrie on the Stratford Memorial Theatre, Ontario

January 4, 1959

10. Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon, A film profile

and Alfred Wallis Cornish fisherman and painter.

January 18, 1959

11. Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin talks about the personality and music of Bela Bartok and plays illustrations from the solo sonata Bartok wrote for him.

Theatre Workshop: A filmed report with Joan Littlewood and Gerry Raffles.

February 15, 1959

12. A Poet In London

John Betjeman, A poet in London.

March 1, 1959

13. French Edition

A French edition on film and in the studio.

including

Comedie Francaise

Jacques Deval introduces a filmed impression of France's National Theatre to celebrate the company's arrival in London.

Le Corbusier in his Paris studio talking about architecture

Auguste Rodin

The thoughts and work of a sculptor.

March 15, 1959

14. Episode 14

Theatre - Films - Books - Painting

Sculpture - Music - Architecture

Presenting people, events, and controversies on film and in the studio every fortnight.

Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

March 29, 1959

15. Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum

Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum

The ins and outs of High Fidelity.

A film study directed by John Schlesinger.

Paul Robeson in the studio

Bert Haanstra, Holland's leading film director in the studio, with some of his films.

April 12, 1959

16. Robert Graves

Robert Graves in Majorca, a film profile.

Thurston Dart plays the harpsichord, the organ, the piano, and the clavichord, and discusses Handel, a mystery.

Bert Haanstra, Holland's leading film director with extracts from some of his films.

April 26, 1959

17. Paddy Chayefsky

Paddy Chayefsky, author of 'Marty' and The Bachelor Party' interviewed by Richard Hoggart. With extracts from some of his films.

Leonard Bernstein, Musical Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra composer of West Side Story, On the Town, and Candide.

May 10, 1959

18. The Mermaid Theatre

A film study of the birth of a theatre with Bernard Miles.

May 24, 2024

19. Fritz Kortner

Fritz Kortner, Leading German actor and stage director at work in the Residenztheater, Munich.

Interviewed by Robert Robinson.

From Spain to Streatham: The guitar craze.

June 7, 2024

20. Carl Ebert at Glyndebourne

A great producer on his approach to opera, filmed during rehearsals for his production of 'Cosi fan Tutte' by Mozart.

June 21, 1959

21. Wanda Landowska

Wanda Landowska

A filmed interview with the world's most famous harpsichord player, who is eighty today.

The Romantic Movement

Paintings from the Council of Europe Exhibition, opening in London on July 10.

July 5, 1959
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