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Season 1967

  • S1967E01 Episode 1

    • September 30, 1967
    • BBC Two

    This week: MARSHALL McLUHAN A plain man's guide * ANOUK AIMEE with scenes from the newly released English version of A Man and a Woman * THE CRIMINALS The Cuban author Jose Triana and excerpts from his play now at the Aldwych Theatre, London with BRENDA BRUCE, SUSAN FLEETWOOD and BARRIE INGHAM

  • S1967E02 Episode 2

    • October 7, 1967
    • BBC Two

    This week: BRETT WHITELEY A portrait of the young Australian painter * PENELOPE MORTIMER on her new novel My Friend Says It's Bullet Proof • BONNIE AND CLYDE Warren Beatty , the star, and Arthur Penn, the director with scenes from their new film

  • S1967E03 Episode 3

    • October 14, 1967
    • BBC Two

    CHURCHILL IN BERLIN Excerpts from Hochhuth's controversial play The Soldiers filmed in its current German production and discussed in the studio * MUSIC FOR THE SCREEN Richard Rodney Bennett and John Schlesinger talk about film music with excerpts from their latest production Far from the Madding Crowd

  • S1967E04 Episode 4

    • October 21, 1967
    • BBC Two

    RILKE ON RODIN A film on the sculpture of Auguste Rodin to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death Based on the writings of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who was his secretary and close friend * MAX ROACH One of the greatest jazz drummers of all time, a technician of amazing skill and subtlety sublime BENNY GREEN Roach talks, drums, and plays with his Quintet

  • S1967E05 Episode 5

    • October 28, 1967
    • BBC Two

    This week includes: MR. BOSWELL Impression of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery devoted to James Boswell and his world

  • S1967E06 Episode 6

    • November 4, 1967
    • BBC Two

    PENNY FOR A SONG The world premiere of a new opera by Richard Rodney Bennett : a took behind the scenes at the Sadler's Wells rehearsals MARCEL HARCEAU talks about the art of the mime FRITZ LANG the famous film director talks about his films, and particularly ' M,' revived last week

  • S1967E07 Episode 7

    • November 11, 1967
    • BBC Two

    ARMISTICE DAY, 1967 War The views of the artist and the writer: paintings, drama, poetry, music, and film on the theme of war through the ages from Ancient Greece to Vietnam

  • S1967E08 Episode 8

    • November 18, 1967
    • BBC Two

    This week, with the opening of the London Film Festival, two important international directors and their work BUNUEL'S . BELLE DE JOUR The veteran anarchist film-maker shown at work in the Alps last year on his latest film. Belle de Jour won the Grand Prix at Venice, and opens this week in London. RENOIR'S' LA MARSEILLAISE' Jean Renoir discusses this little known film of his most creative period. It opens the Festival.

  • S1967E09 Episode 9

    • November 25, 1967
    • BBC Two

    This week includes: ZIGGURAT The making of a modern ballet and the man who made it: Glen Tetley , the American choreographer, working on a new work for the Ballet Rambert, premiered this week. FOOT ON SWIFT November 30 is the tercentenary of the birth of Jonathan Swift , wit. pamphleteer, and author of Gulliver's Travels. Michael Foot , M.P., a passionate admirer of Swift, talks about the eighteenth-century Dean of St. Patrick's.

  • S1967E10 Episode 10

    • December 2, 1967
    • BBC Two

    This week including: THE OTHER FOUR MUSKETEERS Peter Coe , Laurie Johnson , Sean Kenny , and Herbert Kretzmer preparing for curtain-up on the first British musical at Drury Lane for twenty-one years.

  • S1967E11 Episode 11

    • December 9, 1967
    • BBC Two

    ... into the world of films, plays, books, art, and music Producer, COLIN NEARS Editor, LORNA PEGRAM

  • S1967E12 Episode 12

    • December 16, 1967
    • BBC Two

    ... into the world of films, plays, books, art, and music Producer, COLIN NEARS Editor. LORNA PEGRAM

  • S1967E13 Episode 13

    • December 23, 1967
    • BBC Two

    This week including: HALF A SIXPENCE Tommy Steele talks about his career to Colin Macinnes with film of his early days as a pop idol and scenes from his new picture

  • S1967E14 Episode 14

    • December 30, 1967
    • BBC Two

    A special edition for the end of the year What has 1967 meant in the arts? Will it be remembered for the start of something big? Or as a year without much character? Among all the trends and tendencies, which will prove to be significant in 19681 The Release correspondents Robert Hughes , Peter Lewis William Mann , Alexander Walker Irving Wardle discuss the year in the arts

  • S1967E15 Unknown

    • BBC Two

Season 1968

  • S1968E01 HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH

    • January 6, 1968
    • BBC Two

    Current events, trends, and tendencies reported by Robert Hughes on Art, Peter Lewis on Plays, William Mann on Music Alexander Walker on Films, Irving Wardle on Books Including: HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH If others can make it, why can't I!— JAMIE McGRECOR , the hero of Clive Donner 's new comedy on a boy and his fantasies of sex and love Clive Donner talks about this and his previous films

Season 1969

  • S1969E27 POP GOES THE HAYWARD and HENRY MILLER AND SEXUS

    • July 5, 1969
    • BBC Two

    The weekly arts magazine POP GOES THE HAYWARD On July 9 London's Hayward Gallery becomes host to one of the largest exhibitions of Pop Art to be seen in this country. In the words of one of its exponents, Pop Art is Young, Witty, Sexy, Glamorous, and Big Business. It is an instant art form and has had instant success. Robert Hughes talks to leading pop artists in New York amid the ad-mass living that inspires their art. including: Roy Lichtenstein , Robert Indiana Jasper Johns , Claes Oldenburg James Rosenquist , George Segal Andy Warhol Directed by Michael MacIntyre HENRY MILLER AND SEXUS ' His reputation originally rested on smuggled copies of what were thought to be dirty books-Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Now Henry Miller is seen as one of the major literary figures of the century. Prophet and philosopher, poet of Paris in the 1930s, his uninhibited enthusiasm for sex and loathing of American society have made him, at the age of seventy-eight, the hero of the Beat Generation. Sexus is his most autobiographical work and the most controversial. On its publication for the first time in England, Henry Miller talks to RELEASE