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- A portrait of the English composer Gordon Jacob, shown at home and at work and interspersed with visualizations of his music.
- 1958–19657.0 (15)TV EpisodeA tour of how Britons are enthusiastically taking up the guitar in all sorts of ways.
- A documentary on one of the Goons from 'The Goon Show'- Spike Milligan.
- An illustration of various mechanical instruments, from the musical-box to 1950s electronica.
- Todays theme is The Light Fantastic.
- 1958–19657.4 (10)TV Episode
- A partly dramatised account of the life of Sir Edward Elgar classical composer. Huw Wheldon narrates the life story over backdrops of beautiful mountain scenery, especially memorable is the image of young Elgar riding his horse around Malvern Hills.
- Todays theme is Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill.
- A portrait of pop artists Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, and Peter Phillips.
- An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.
- 1958–19658.1 (17)TV EpisodeHuw Wheldon Meets Alfred Hitchcock.
- Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.
- The Scottish painters Robert MacBryde (1913-1966) and Robert Colquhoun (1914-1962) at work in their Suffolk studio.
- John Betjeman explores the history of London's great public exhibition venues, from the Crystal Palace to White City and the Festival of Britain.
- Philip Larkin talks to John Betjeman in 1964 about his life, his poetry and the city of Hull where he lived and worked as university librarian.
- 1958–1965TV Episode