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Season 2

Season 2

Season 2

Season 2

Season 2

  • Air date:1958-09-14
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  • Number of episodes:21

List of Episodes

Why Cornwall?
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Air date: 1958-09-14

Runtime: min

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

Backstage at the Rep
S2E2
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Air date: 1958-09-28

Runtime: min

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.

Episode 3
S2E3
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Air date: 1958-10-12

Runtime: min

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.

P. G. Wodehouse
S2E4
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Air date: 1958-10-26

Runtime: min

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.

The Innocent Eye
S2E5
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Air date: 1958-11-09

Runtime: min

The Innocent Eye A film study of the child's imagination.

The Living Suburb
S2E6
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Air date: 1958-11-23

Runtime: min

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

Igor Stravinsky
S2E7
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Air date: 1958-12-07

Runtime: min

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

The Face of the Madonna
S2E8
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Air date: 1958-12-21

Runtime: min

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.

Tyrone Guthrie
S2E9
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Air date: 1959-01-04

Runtime: min

Tyrone Guthrie on the Stratford Memorial Theatre, Ontario

Georges Simenon
S2E10
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Air date: 1959-01-18

Runtime: min

Georges Simenon, A film profile and Alfred Wallis Cornish fisherman and painter.

Yehudi Menuhin
S2E11
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Air date: 1959-02-15

Runtime: min

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.

A Poet In London
S2E12
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Air date: 1959-03-01

Runtime: min

John Betjeman, A poet in London.

French Edition
S2E13
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Air date: 1959-03-15

Runtime: min

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.

Episode 14
S2E14
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Air date: 1959-03-29

Runtime: min

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.

Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum
S2E15
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Air date: 1959-04-12

Runtime: min

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.

Robert Graves
S2E16
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Air date: 1959-04-26

Runtime: min

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.

Paddy Chayefsky
S2E17
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Air date: 1959-05-10

Runtime: min

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.

The Mermaid Theatre
S2E18
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Air date: 2024-05-24

Runtime: min

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

Fritz Kortner
S2E19
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Air date: 2024-06-07

Runtime: min

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.

Carl Ebert at Glyndebourne
S2E20
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Air date: 1959-06-21

Runtime: min

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

Wanda Landowska
S2E21
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Air date: 1959-07-05

Runtime: min

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.

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