''Late Night Line-Up'' is a pioneering British television discussion programme broadcast on

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between 1964 and 1972.

Background

From its launch in April 1964, BBC2 began each evening's transmission with a programme called ''Line-Up'', a ten-minute collection of reviews and previews of the channel's output, presented initially by Denis Tuohy. Although intended to draw attention to the considerable variety of original programming on BBC2, ''Line-Up'' was perceived as little more than a self-promotion exercise by the newspapers and the viewing public alike. Later in the year, it was decided that ''Line-Up'' be replaced by something of a similar intention but with a more intellectual edge. Instead of a guided tour of BBC2's output, the new programme would be an open and candid discussion among invited guests, transmitted live after the 9.00p.m. watershed. The new programme was named ''Late Night Line-Up'' and took over from ''Line-Up'' in September 1964. The original theme tune was "Blue Boy" by

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, replaced in the 1970s with a version of " Jordu" by the Dave Hancock Six.

Content

Denis Tuohy carried over his presenter's role from ''Line-Up'' but the new programme also brought Joan Bakewell to prominence as a broadcaster. An innovative feature of ''Late Night Line-Up'' was that it was scheduled as the last programme of the evening before closedown. This meant that the discussion need not be constrained by time; topics could be explored as far as the participants were willing to talk about them. (Another open-ended discussion programme, '' After Dark'', began on

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fifteen years after ''Late Night Line-Up'' had ceased production.) Broadcasting hours on British television were tightly controlled by the Postmaster General in the 1960s, and, for the majority of the 1960s, weeknights on BBC Two were limited to seven hours of programming in a day (excluding sport, political conferences, schools, religion and adult education which were exempt from the restrictions). As BBC Two would normally only air for 30minutes in the morning at 11a.m. with Play School, this meant 6½hours were left over; with BBC Two normally starting their evening at 7.00p.m., it meant ''Late-Night Line-Up'' could remain on the air until 1.30am if they so wished. It never happened, but the freedom for discussion, without worrying about exceeding the broadcasting day allowance made the programme very popular, especially with those who enjoyed watching television late at night, as BBC One and ITV generally closed down by 11.45p.m. each weeknight. Participating in the discussion were TV personalities, subject experts and members of the public with relevant experience. For example, a real-life single mother might be invited to discuss a drama themed around single parenthood. Some panelists were deliberately chosen to talk about something outside their usual sphere of expertise. In one edition, the

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held his own on the subject of

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, even when his fellow panelists were a distinguished cricketer and a cricket journalist. ''Late Night Line-Up'' eventually went well beyond its initial remit of examining BBC2's output and came to incorporate interviews, live music and poetry performances and discussions of other TV channels (which meant ITV to all intents and purposes) and even current affairs issues. However, television criticism was always seen as the main focus, a fact which did not endear the programme to the BBC's senior executives. Presenter Tuohy quotes the then head of Light Entertainment, Tom Sloan, as saying: "We now employ two kinds of broadcaster: those who make programmes and those who knock them.... Don't ask me why we do it." On 26 May 2008 ''Late Night Line-Up'' returned for a special one-off edition as part of

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's ''Permissive Night''. Presented by Joan Bakewell, it featured discussion of the themes and programmes shown over the course of the evening and examined the liberalising legislation passed by

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in the late 1960s. Archive programmes shown included editions of '' Man Alive'', ''

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'', '' Twenty-Four Hours'' and ''Late Night Line-Up''.

Crew of ''Late Night Line-Up''

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, producer * Michael Fentiman, producer * Joan Bakewell * Denis Tuohy *John Stone * Michael Dean * Nicholas Tresilian * Sheridan Morley * Tony Bilbow * Philip Jenkinson *Noel Picarda *Terry Hughes, director *Steve Turner, director *David Heeley, director *Colin Strong, director *Tom Corcoran, director *Granville Jenkins, director *Michael Appleton, producer *Richard Drewett, producer

Episode guide

As with many shows of its era, much of ''Late Night Line-Up'' no longer survives. This was not only due to videotapes being wiped, but the programme's usual live broadcast meant they were often not recorded at all. Luckily, some records do survive containing many dates and details of these shows.

1964

*Interview With Miss Foyle – Foyle's Bookstore / Interview With Mr *Tompkins – Bookseller/ Screaming Lord Sutch Interview 27 August 1964 *History of The ''

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'' 23 September 1964

1965

* Ralph Richardson Interview 3 February 1965 * Ted Ray 9 March 1965 *

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On Exercise 18 March 1965 *

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Interview 19 March 1965 *

Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous Big band, jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D ...

26 March 1965 *

Opening Night Delay/BBC2 Critics/ Rick Jones 20 April 1965 *

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/ Allan Smethurst And Cluff's Dog 14 May 1965 *

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/ Writers World – Rowena Bingham /

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Debate – "This House Would Not Fight For Crown And Country" / David Jacobs' Daughter – Carol / Alan David and

Peter Cook Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishmen ...

22 May 1965 *''

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'' –

Troy Kennedy Martin Troy Kennedy Martin (15 February 1932 – 15 September 2009) was a Scottish-born film and television screenwriter. He created the long-running BBC TV police series ''Z-Cars'' (1962–1978), and the award-winning 1985 anti-nuclear drama '' Edge ...

Interview 26 May 1965 *Spies 26 June 1965 *

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6 July 1965 *

Michael Crawford Michael Patrick Smith (born 19 January 1942), known professionally as Michael Crawford, is an English actor, comedian and singer. Crawford is best known for playing the hapless Frank Spencer in the sitcom '' Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em'', Cornel ...

On Late Night TV 31 July 1965 *''Late Night Line-Up – In the

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'' 4 August 1965 * Robin Day Interview 8 August 1965 *Virginia and Bob Manry 27 August 1965 * Kristin Brihn /

Donovan Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965 and subsequently scored multiple international hit singles ...

8 September 1965 *The Pistol Preview 10 September 1965 * Lydia Sokolova Interview 13 September 1965 *

Willy Brandt Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and concurrently served as the Chancellor ...

Preview 15 September 1965 * Douglas Bader 17 September 1965 * William Taynton Talks About

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2 October 1965 * Tony Hancock Interview 5 October 1965 *A To ''

'' 8 October 1965 *

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Interview / Julie Felix /

Peter Ustinov Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov (16 April 192128 March 2004) was a British actor, director and writer. An internationally known raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. Ustinov received #Awa ...

16 October 1965 *TV Review /

Alan Bennett Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English actor, author, playwright and screenwriter. He has received numerous awards and honours including four BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Tony Awards. In 2005 he received the Socie ...

– Vicar Sketch /

Tommy Makem Thomas Makem (4 November 1932 – 1 August 2007) was an Irish folk music, folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller. He was best known as a member of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He played the long-necked 5-string banjo, tin whistle, l ...

and

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22 October 1965 *

Arthur Askey Arthur Bowden Askey (6 June 1900 – 16 November 1982) was an English comedian and actor. Askey was known for his short stature (5' 2", 1.58 m) and distinctive horn-rimmed glasses, and his playful humour incorporating improvisation an ...

29 October 1965 *Line-Up Review 5 November 1965 *

Maurice Denham William Maurice Denham (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English actor who appeared in over 100 films and television programmes in his long career. Early life Denham was born on 23 December 1909 in Beckenham, Kent, the son of Eleanor ...

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and

Richard Murdoch Richard Bernard Murdoch (6 April 1907 – 9 October 1990) was an English actor and entertainer. After early professional experience in the chorus in musical comedy, Murdoch quickly moved on to increasingly prominent roles in musical comedy and ...

14 November 1965 * Juliette Gréco Interview 20 November 1965 *

Interview 22 November 1965 *

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26 November 1965 *

George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to a ...

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

– TV Adaptations 27 November 1965 – interviews by Michael Dean with

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, Nigel Kneale,

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, Yvonne Mitchell, Christopher Morahan, David Buck and Jane Merrow *Dr

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2 December 1965 *''A Child's Christmas in Wales'' 24 December 1965

1966

*Line Up Rugby / Yugoslav TV Film /

Shirley Abicair Shirley Abicair (born 26 October 1930) is an Australian-born singer, musician, television personality, actress and author. In the 1950s and 60s, she was probably best known as an exponent of the zither. Early life Shirley Abicair was born in M ...

1 January 1966 *The Sea And Shipping 5 January 1966 *Line-Up Review – Comedy – '' What The Papers Say'' 7 January 1966 *War Films/

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11 January 1966 *

Ivor Cutler Ivor Cutler (born Isadore Cutler, 15 January 1923 – 3 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions recor ...

/ Clifford Davis Conjuring Tricks/TV Critics 13 January 1966 *Line -Up Review 14 January 1966 *Line Up Rugby/ ''

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'' 15 January 1966 *

Joseph Losey Joseph Walton Losey III (; January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984) was an American film and theatre director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States. Hollywood ...

/ Whole Scene Going 19 January 1966 *''Plunder – A Portrait Of Gilbert Harding'' 23 January 1966 *

Laurence Harvey Laurence Harvey (born Zvi Mosheh Skikne; 1 October 192825 November 1973) was a Lithuanian-born British actor and film director. He was born to Lithuanian Jewish parents and emigrated to Union of South Africa, South Africa at an early age, before ...

5 February 1966 *'' Softly, Softly'' /

Richard Rodney Bennett Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer and pianist. He was noted for his musical versatility, drawing from such sources as jazz, romanticism, and avant-garde; and for his use of twelve-tone technique ...

9 February 1966 *

Ivor Mairants Ivor Mairants (18 July 1908 – 20 February 1998) was a Polish jazz and classical guitarist, teacher and composer. With his wife Lily Schneider in 1958 he created the Ivor Mairants Musicentre, a specialist guitar store in London. Early years ...

Margaret Rutherford Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was an English actress of stage, film and television. Rutherford came to national attention following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's ''Blithe Spirit (1945 f ...

Interview / ''

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'' 12 February 1966 *

Burl Ives Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American Folk music, folk singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades. Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his o ...

Interview 13 February 1966 * Sammy Gray Song /

Arnold Ridley William Arnold Ridley (7 January 1896 – 12 March 1984) was an English playwright and actor, known early in his career for writing the 1925 play '' The Ghost Train'' and later in life for the British television sitcom ''Dad's Army'' (1968–77 ...

/ Robert Harbin Trick/ Edmund Blunder 14 February 1966 *Line-Up Review 25 February 1966 *'' The Puffer'' 4 March 1966 *

Barbra Streisand Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand ( ; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success across multiple fields of entertainment, being the ...

17 March 1966 *

Vikki Carr Florencia Vicenta de Casillas-Martínez Cardona (born July 19, 1940), known by her stage name Vikki Carr, is an American vocalist. She has a singing career that spans more than five decades. Born in El Paso, Texas, to Mexican parents, she has ...

/ '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' – Interview With

Robert Vaughn Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor and political activist, whose career in film, television and theater spanned nearly six decades and who was best known for his role as secret agent Nap ...

And David McCallum 21 March 1966 *Poetry / Sir

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/ Vintage Films 22 March 1966 * John Faulkner Song / Great Metropolis Review / Peter O'Donnell Interview/

Mary Martin Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in ''South Pacific (musica ...

Interview 9 April 1966 *Johnny and

Fanny Cradock Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey (26 February 1909 – 27 December 1994), better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer. She frequently appeared on television, at cookery demonstrations and in print with ...

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/ Tsai Chin Song 17 April 1966 * N. F. Simpson 28 April 1966 *Menuhin School –

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1 May 1966 *

André Previn André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved ...

Interview 4 May 1966 * N. F. Simpson Interview / Jimmy Edwards's Moustache / Breakfast TV / Donald Campbell Interview / Tonia Bern Interview 7 May 1966 * Sammy Davis Jr. Interview 14 May 1966 *

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/ Stanley Holloway /

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23 May 1966 *

Leopold Stokowski Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British-born American conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. H ...

21 June 1966 * Gay Hamilton /

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9 July 1966 *

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– Cargo Under Sail 12 July 1966 *

18 July 1966 *'' War Against Crime'' Discussion /

Boris Karloff William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), known professionally as Boris Karloff () and occasionally billed as Karloff the Uncanny, was a British actor. His portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the horror film ''Frankenstei ...

Films / Clive Turner Predictions 2 August 1966 *

Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 featu ...

Interview 3 August 1966 *Future And Effect of Television – Discussion 4 August 1966 *From

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5 August 1966 *Hans And Lotte Hass 7 September 1966 *''

Ken Russell Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was a British film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. His films were mainly liberal adaptations of ...

At Work'' 23 September 1966 *''America Since The Bomb'' 7 October 1966 *

Tommy Trinder Thomas Edward Trinder (24 March 1909 – 10 July 1989) was an English stage, screen and radio comedian whose catchphrase was "You lucky people!". Described by Cultural history, cultural historian Matthew Sweet (writer), Matthew Sweet as "a cocky ...

11 October 1966 *''Plunder'' 15 October 1966 *

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17 October 1966 * D. W. Griffith / Cambridge University Jazz Ensemble 27 October 1966 *Documentary Discussion 28 October 1966 *Ex-RSM Ronald Brittain Interview 30 October 1966 * Professor John Kenneth Galbraith 14 November 1966 *

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20 November 1966 *Discussion 21 November 1966 *

Interview /

Georg Solti Sir Georg Solti ( , ; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-servi ...

Interview 23 November 1966 *

Dave Brubeck David Warren Brubeck (; December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a foremost exponent of cool jazz, Brubeck's work is characterized by unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasti ...

1 December 1966 * Chay Blyth And John Ridgway on rowing the Atlantic /

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Discussion 2 December 1966 *

Nancy Mitford Nancy Freeman-Mitford (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973) was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist. The eldest of the Mitford family#Mitford sisters, Mitford sisters, she was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the ...

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5 December 1966 *

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on Human Rights Day 10 December 1966 *Propaganda Discussion /

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Opera Review 11 December 1966 * Francis Chichester / Henry Livings Interview 12 December 1966 *''

The Magic Roundabout ''The Magic Roundabout'' is an English-language children's programme that ran on BBC Television from 1965 to 1977. It used the footage of the French stop motion animation show '' Le Manège enchanté'' but with completely different scripts a ...

'' / Philip Jenkinson Film Clips 13 December 1966 * Erik Durschmied Cameraman 14 December 1966 *''

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'' 22 December 1966

1967

* Dick Gregory 2 January 1967 *''

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'' 7 January 1967 *''

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'' Discussion 21 January 1967 * John Hawkesworth on ''The Croxley Master'' January 1967 * Alan Melville Interview / ''

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'' 27 January 1967 *Discussion on building industry /

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1 February 1967 *

David Frost Sir David Paradine Frost (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English television host, journalist, comedian and writer. He rose to prominence during the satire boom in the United Kingdom when he was chosen to host the satirical programme ...

4 February 1967 * David Merrick, Broadway Producer 7 February 1967 *

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13 February 1967 * Gwyneth Jones 15 February 1967 *

19 February 1967 *Pick of the Month 3 March 1967 *''

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'' Extract / Robin Scott / Denis Touhy 9 March 1967 * Dame Edith Evans 20 March 1967 * George Browne, Trinidadian singer, sang "On the Road to Rainbow City" /

Pierre Salinger Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925 – October 16, 2004) was an American journalist, author and politician. He served as the ninth White House Press Secretary, press secretary for United States presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon ...

/ Children's Literature And Negroes 3 April 1967 *

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10 April 1967 * Westerns Discussion /

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/ Los Zafiros Group 20 April 1967 *

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Shakespeare's Sonnets William Shakespeare (1565 –1616) wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all together in a quarto in 1609. Howe ...

22 April 1967 *The Golden Rose of Montreux 1967 28 April 1967 *

Phil Silvers Phil Silvers (born Phillip Silver; May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah". His career as a professional entertainer spanned nearly 60 years. He achieved major popularity w ...

Interview 1/5/67 *

James Cameron James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker, who resides in New Zealand. He is a major figure in the post-New Hollywood era and often uses novel technologies with a Classical Hollywood cinema, classical filmmaking styl ...

4 May 1967 * Jimi Hendrix Experience / Psychedelic Happening – Discussion/ Pierre Schoendoerffer 17 May 1967 *''Plunder – One Man And His Band'' ( Harry Roy) 19 May 1967 * Julian Slade 21 May 1967 *''Soldiers of the Widow'' 27 May 1967 *Sir Gerald Cock Interview 1 June 1967 * Gladys Cooper 11 June 1967 *

Homosexuality Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or Human sexual activity, sexual behavior between people of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexu ...

Discussion 14 June 1967 * Manitas de Plata 15 June 1967 *John Earle & Boat 'Helen'/ Arthur Negus 22 June 1967 *1000th Edition –

And

Dudley Moore Dudley Stuart John Moore (19 April 193527 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer. He first came to prominence in the UK as a leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s. He was one of the four writer-perf ...

Terry Jones Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones a ...

/ Nyree Dawn Porter /

Ned Sherrin Edward George Sherrin (18 February 1931 – 1 October 2007) was an English broadcaster, author and stage director. He qualified as a barrister and then worked in independent television before joining the BBC. He appeared in a variety of r ...

David Attenborough Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and writer. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, the nine nature d ...

/ Marion Montgomery 30 June 1967 * A.P. Herbert Interview 3 July 1967 *''

'' 4 July 1967 * Freddie Frinton /

Mel Calman Melville Calman (19 May 1931 – 10 February 1994) was a British cartoonist best known for his "little man" cartoons published in British newspapers including the '' Daily Express'' (1957–63), '' The Sunday Telegraph'' (1964–65), '' The ...

Cartoon on Sickness 10 July 1967 *Gibson Square 1 August 1967 *

Battersea Park Battersea Park is a 200-acre (83-hectare) green space at Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth in London. It is situated on the south bank of the River Thames opposite Chelsea, London, Chelsea and was opened in 1858. The park occupies ...

10 August 1967 *

Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke, Order of the British Empire, KBE (né Alfred Cooke; 20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the Unite ...

14 August 1967 *Electronics And TV /

Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones are an English Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular, influential, and enduring bands of the Album era, rock era. In the early 1960s, the band pione ...

/ Discussion On Canadian Film Industry 24 August 1967 *'' Empty Quarter'' Clip/

Colin Davis Sir Colin Rex Davis (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among the composers with whom ...

Interview 25 August 1967 *'' Queen Mary II, Clyde steamer 26 September 1967 *

Dick Van Dyke Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, entertainer and comedian. Dick Van Dyke on screen and stage, His work spans screen and stage, and List of awards and nominations received by Dick Van Dyke, his awards includ ...

4 October 1967 * Fred Friendly 26 October 1967 *

Barry Humphries John Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, actor, author and satirist. He was best known for writing and playing his stage and television characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He appeare ...

Franco Zeffirelli Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (; 12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019) was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post–World War II e ...

/ Mable Hillery 27 October 1967 *Philip Jenkinson Film Requests/

Edmund Leach Sir Edmund Ronald Leach FRAI FBA (7 November 1910 – 6 January 1989) was a British social anthropologist and academic. He served as provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966 to 1979. He was also president of the Royal Anthropolo ...

29 October 1967 *

Disc Jockey A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include Radio personality, radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at nightclubs or music fes ...

s 21 November 1967 * L Marsland Gander Interview on Lord Reith / ''Like Father'' – 1/

Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, o ...

/ ''Like Father'' – 2 – Billy Cotton Snr and

Bill Cotton Sir William Frederick Cotton (23 April 1928 – 11 August 2008) was a British television producer and executive, and the son of dance band leader Billy Cotton. The television and radio presenter Fearne Cotton is related to him, as he was her ...

Jnr 22 November 1967 *Visual Effects – Jack Kine 25 November 1967 (included on the DVD release of the ''

Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...

'' serial '' The Tomb of the Cybermen'') * Mcgonagall poetry / Marion Montgomery / ''

'' / Philip Oakes On

Petula Clark Sally "Petula" Clark (born 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress, and songwriter. She started her professional career as a child actor, child performer and has had the longest career of any British entertainer, spanning more than 85 y ...

/ Westerns In TV / East End Slums Discussion/ Michael Miles 3 December 1967 *

Yoko Ono Yoko Ono (, usually spelled in katakana as ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York ...

Press Release /

Malcolm Muggeridge Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was a conservative British journalist and satirist. His father, H. T. Muggeridge, was a socialist politician and one of the early Labour Party Members of Parliament (for Romford, i ...

And Kitty Muggeridge /

Alirio Díaz __NOTOC__ Alirio Díaz (12 November 19235 July 2016) was a Venezuelan classical guitarist and composer, considered one of the most prominent composer-guitarists of South America and an eminent musician. He studied with Andrés Segovia, and gav ...

– Guitarist 4 December 1967 * Julie Felix Song / ''Dear Octopus'' Play / ''

Black Dwarf A black dwarf is a theoretical stellar remnant, specifically a white dwarf that has cooled sufficiently to no longer emit significant heat or light. Because the time required for a white dwarf to reach this state is calculated to be longer than ...

'' Newspaper 7 December 1967 *

14 December 1967 *

Maurice Chevalier Maurice Auguste Chevalier (; 12 September 1888 – 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor, and entertainer. He is best known for his signature songs, including " Livin' In The Sunlight", " Valentine", " Louise", " Mimi", and " Thank Heaven f ...

31 December 1967

1968

Tyrone Guthrie Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (2 July 1900 – 15 May 1971) was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at ...

15 January 1968 *

Vera Lynn Dame Vera Margaret Lynn (; 20 March 1917 – 18 June 2020) was an English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were very popular during World War II. She is Honorific nicknames in popular music, honorifically known ...

21 January 1968 * V.S. Pritchett 26 January 1968 * Violet Bonham Carter (Lady Asquith) and Lady Stocks in

Women's Suffrage Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffra ...

1 February 1968 * Seán O'Casey 6 February 1968 *Sir

Arnold Lunn Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn (18 April 1888 – 2 June 1974) was a skier, mountaineer and writer. He was knighted for "services to British Skiing and Anglo-Swiss relations" in 1952. His father was a lay Methodist minister, but Lunn was an a ...

11 February 1968 *Dame

Edith Evans Dame Edith Mary Evans (8 February 1888 – 14 October 1976) was an English actress. She was best known for Edith Evans – stage and film roles, her work on the West End theatre, West End stage, but also appeared in films at the beginning and t ...

17 February 1968 *Dame Marie Rambert 21 February 1968 *

Royal Court A royal court, often called simply a court when the royal context is clear, is an extended royal household in a monarchy, including all those who regularly attend on a monarch, or another central figure. Hence, the word ''court'' may also be app ...

/ '' Cue'' magazine 29 February 1968 * Carlo Maria Giulini 3 March 1968 *

Lotte Reiniger Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best known films are ''The Adventures of Prince Achmed'', from 1926, the oldest surviving feature-length a ...

/ girls from Hammersmith County School give their views on public schools 9 March 1968 *

Graham Collier James Graham Collier (21 February 1937 – 9 September 2011) was an English jazz Double bass, bassist, bandleader and composer. Life and career Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England, on leaving school Collier joined the British Army as ...

and Jazz 15 March 1968 *

Peter Brook Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022) was an English theatre and film director. He worked first in England, from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from 1947 at the Royal Opera House, and from 1962 for the Royal Shak ...

Interview 19 March 1968 * Kathleen Beehan Interview /

Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer ( ; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for '' The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He ...

– ''

The Canterbury Tales ''The Canterbury Tales'' () is a collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. The book presents the tales, which are mostly written in verse, as part of a fictional storytelling contest held ...

'' 20 March 1968 *

George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 188 ...

22 March 1968 *

Tim Buckley Timothy Charles Buckley III (February 14, 1947 – June 29, 1975) was an American musician. He began his career based in folk rock, but subsequently experimented with genres such as psychedelia, jazz, the avant-garde, and funk paired with his ...

/ Cicely Courtneidge And Jack Hulbert /

Kingsley Martin Basil Kingsley Martin (28 July 1897 – 16 February 1969) usually known as Kingsley Martin, was a British journalist who edited the left-leaning political magazine the ''New Statesman'' from 1930 to 1960. Early life He was the son of (Dav ...

Interview 1 April 1968 *

Oliver Knussen Stuart Oliver Knussen (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a British composer of contemporary classical music and conductor. Among the most influential British composers of his generation, his relatively few compositions are "rooted in 20th-cen ...

/ Cockneyland 8 April 1968 *

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gda ...

Interview 11 April 1968 *Derek Jones 12 April 1968 * Bert Haanstra 16 April 1968 *

Brighton Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...

Postcards 26 April 1968 * Xenia Field Interview 1 May 1968 *

Cecil Beaton Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as costume designer and set designer for stage and screen. His accolades ...

Interview 9 May 1968 *'' Colour Me Pop'' – Katch 22 17 May 1968 Transmitted 18 May 1968 *

Alan Whicker Donald Alan Whicker (2 August 1921 – 12 July 2013) was a British journalist and television presenter and broadcaster. His career spanned almost 60 years, during which time he presented the documentary television programme '' Whick ...

19 May 1968 *

Skye The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye, is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous hub dominated by the Cuillin, the rocky slopes of which provide some o ...

24 May 1968 *Robert Duncan Interview 27 May 1968 * Alfred Wallis 29 May 1968 *

Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group was a group of associated British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century. Among the people involved in the group were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, a ...

30 May 1968 *

Andy Williams Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified and three platinum certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hos ...

31 May 1968 *

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, ; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, Futurism and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Pica ...

Interview 5 June 1968 – his only television interview *

Alger Hiss Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official who was accused of espionage in 1948 for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The statute of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perjur ...

10 June 1968 * Stephen Arlen On Sadler's Wells 17 June 1968 *'' Colour Me Pop'' –

Small Faces Small Faces were an English Rock music, rock band from London, founded in 1965. The group originally consisted of Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones and Jimmy Winston, with Ian McLagan replacing Winston as the band's keyboardist in 1966 ...

21 June 1968 *

Robert Bly Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' (1990), which spent 62 weeks on ...

24 June 1968 *

Václav Havel Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last List of presidents of Czechoslovakia, president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissol ...

26 June 1968 * Douglas Cooper: art critic on Picasso's work for theatre 27 June 1968 * Bessie Love 29 June 1968 * Paris Students – Posters 1 July 1968 *

Arthur Kopit Arthur Lee Kopit (; May 10, 1937 – April 2, 2021) was an American playwright. He was a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for ''Indians (play), Indians'' and ''Wings (play), Wings''. He was also nominated for three Tony Awards: Best Play for ...

4 July 1968 *

Bob Hope Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours. He appeared ...

13 July 1968 * Fun Fair 18 July 1968 *

Robert Wise Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films ''West Side Story'' (1961) and ''The Sound of Music'' (1965). He was als ...

20 July 1968 * Diaghilev 22 July 1968 * Lynne Reid Banks 25 July 1968 *'' Cybernetic Serendipity'' exhibition 1 August 1968 *

Photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

3 August 1968 *

Rod Steiger Rodney Stephen Steiger ( ; April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Ranked as "one of Hollywood's most charismatic and dynamic stars", he is closely associ ...

10 August 1968 *

Simone Signoret Simone Signoret (; born Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker; 25 March 1921 – 30 September 1985) was a French actress. She received various accolades, including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, a César Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and ...

12 August 1968 * Peter Terson 19 August 1968 *

Peter Lawford Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford (né Aylen; 7 September 1923 – 24 December 1984) was an English-American actor.Obituary ''Variety Obituaries, Variety'', 26 December 1984. He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and the brother-in-law of US president Jo ...

24 August 1968 * Sissinghurst Castle 26 August 1968 * Michael Macliammoir / ''

Canterbury Tales ''The Canterbury Tales'' () is a collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. The book presents the tales, which are mostly written in verse (poetry), verse, as part of a fictional storytellin ...

'' – Musical 2 September 1968 *

Gary Player Gary James Player (born 1 November 1935) is a South African retired professional golfer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time. During his career, Player won nine major championships on the regular tour and nine ...

9 September 1968 *

Elsie Randolph Elsie Randolph (9 December 1904 – 15 October 1982) was an English actress, singer and dancer. Randolph was born and died in London. She is best remembered for her partnership with Jack Buchanan in several stage and film musicals. She also a ...

11 September 1968 *'' Colour Me Pop'' –

The Moody Blues The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in May 1964. The band initially consisted of Graeme Edge (drums), Denny Laine (guitar/vocals), Mike Pinder (keyboards/vocals), Ray Thomas (multi-instrumentalist/vocals) and Clint W ...

14 September 1968 *

21 September 1968 * Genevieve Page 26 September 1968 *

27 September 1968 * Sandy Dennis 4 October 1968 * Quintin Hogg 7 October 1968 *

9 October 1968 *'' Colour Me Pop'' –

Honeybus Honeybus were a 1960s pop group formed in April 1967, in London. They are best known for their 1968 UK top 10 hit single, " I Can't Let Maggie Go", written by group member Pete Dello who also composed their previous single "(Do I Figure) In ...

– Clodagh Rodgers 12 October 1968 *''Out in Arizona Where The Bad Men Are – The Making Of " The High Chaparral"'' 22 October 1968 *

Tom Hayden Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. Hayden was best known for his role as an anti-war, civil rights, and intellectual activist in the 1960s, becoming an i ...

28 October 1968 *

Jules Feiffer Jules Ralph Feiffer ( ; January 26, 1929 – January 17, 2025) was an American cartoonist and author, who at one time was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Pulitzer Prize for Editori ...

31 October 1968 * Ramón Novarro Interview 1 November 1968 * Stuart Hood 5 November 1968 *

Gloria Swanson Gloria Mae Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for h ...

Interview 7 November 1968 * Leif Erickson Interview/ First World War Posters 11 November 1968 *

Lester Pearson Lester Bowles Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian politician, diplomat, statesman, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He also served as Leader of the Liberal Party of C ...

14 November 1968 *

Eric Portman Eric Harold Portman (13 July 1901 – 7 December 1969) was an English stage and film actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in three films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger during the 1940s. Early life Born in Halifax, ...

Interview 15 November 1968 *

Vivien Merchant Ada Brand Thomson (22 July 1929 – 3 October 1982), known professionally as Vivien Merchant, was an English actress. She began her career in 1942, and became known for dramatic roles on stage and in films. In 1956 she married the playwright Ha ...

Interview 19 November 1968 * Rosemary Tonks and Maureen Duffy Two poets film. 20 November 1968 * Cameron Mitchell Interview 25 November 1968 * John Colicos and

Kenneth Tynan Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer. Initially making his mark as a critic at ''The Observer'', he praised John Osborne's ''Look Back in Anger'' (1956) and encouraged the emerging wave ...

on the ''

Soldiers A soldier is a person who is a member of an army. A soldier can be a conscripted or volunteer enlisted person, a non-commissioned officer, a warrant officer, or an officer. Etymology The word ''soldier'' derives from the Middle English word ...

'' play 26 November 1968 *

Benny Goodman Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". His orchestra did well commercially. From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing bi ...

Interview 4 December 1968 *

Roland Topor Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surrealism, surreal nature of his work. He was of Po ...

Interview 5 December 1968 *''The Young Visiters'' – Interview With Daisy Ashford 19 December 1968 *''The Film World Past And Present'' – Brigitte Bardot Interview /

20 December 1968 *'' Colour Me Pop'' – Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band 21 December 1968 *''TV in the USA'' 22 December 1968

1969

*'' Colour Me Pop'' – The Move 4 January 1969 *Aaron Copland 10 January 1969 *

15 January 1969 *Film Night – ''Rosemary's Baby (film), Rosemary's Baby'' 19 January 1969 *George Plimpton 23 January 1969 *Don Partridge and The Buskers 29 January 1969 *

3 February 1969 *J. P. Donleavy Interview 5 February 1969 *Georges Simenon Interview 9 February 1969 *''

'' / Alan Randall (entertainer), Alan Randall / Philip Oakes On Tony Hancock 10 February 1969 *Sir Kenneth Clark 28 February 1969 *Sewell Stokes Interview On Isadora Duncan 4 March 1969 *Michael Balcon 11 March 1969 *John Hutton (artist), John Hutton 18 March 1969 *Film Night – Vincent Price Interview/ 23 March 1969 *Film Night – ''Ice Station Zebra (film), Ice Station Zebra'' / Peter Finch 30 March 1969 *Adrian Conan Doyle Interview 8 April 1969 *Alvar Lidell 11 April 1969 *Richard Hamilton (artist), Richard Hamilton Interview 14 April 1969 *''In Celebration'' At the Royal Court Theatre 22 April 1969 *Jack Valenti 1 May 1969 *Sir

9 May 1969 *Hubert Humphrey 15 May 1969 *''The Rector Of Stiffkey'' 20 May 1969 *Film Night – Dimitri Tiomkin 25 May 1969 *Dorset Horses 26 May 1969 *Viveca Lindfors 30 May 1969 *Sir Robert Mayer (philanthropist), Robert Mayer 4 June 1969 *''The Promise'' 15 June 1969 *Film Night – ''The Illustrated Man'' 22 June 1969 *Alwin Nikolais 27 June 1969 *Film Night – ''The Great Pismo'' 29 June 1969 *Ronald Searle 2 July 1969 *Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, Francis Hastings 3 July 1969 *''Colour Me Pop'' – Trapeze (band), Trapeze 5 July 1969 *C.U.R.E. – Drugs 8 July 1969 *Film Night – ''Moon Zero Two'' 13 July 1969 *Film Night – Mervin Leroy 10 August 1969 *Frank Cousins (British politician), Frank Cousins 21 August 1969 *George Gershwin 22 August 1969 *Film Night – ''The White Game'' / ''Run of the Arrow'' 24 August 1969 * Jimmy Edwards Interview 29 August 1969 *''I Am English I Was German But Above All I Was There'' 2 September 1969 *Lillian Gish 3 September 1969 *Tito Gobbi 4 September 1969 *Bhaktivedanta Swami and Krishna devotees 16 September 1969 *Ringo Starr 10 December 1969

1970

*''When We Get To Calella It's Going To Be Great!'' 15 September 1970 *Beethoven Trio 22 September 1970 *Playgrounds 25 September 1970 *''Richard Nixon, Nixon in Ireland'' 9 October 1970 *William Kunstler Interview 12 October 1970 *''The Gang Show'' 19 October 1970 *Bessie Braddock 20 October 1970 *''The Man Who Almost Won The National'' 29 October 1970 *Bessie Braddock Obituary 13 November 1970 *Laurence Olivier Interview 16 November 1970 *Jeanne Moreau Talks About Orson Welles 19 November 1970 *Gypsies 25 November 1970 *''John Breslin On

'' 4 December 1970 *Lenny Bruce Stand Up Routine 18 December 1970 *Colin Welland 21 December 1970 *''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' 22 December 1970
/ref> *Richard Huggett 23 December 1970 *''Laughter in Despair'' – ''Loot (play), Loot'' 30 December 1970

1971

*''One Man's Week – Russell Braddon'' 13 February 1971 *Guinness Factory Workers Give Opinion About The Quality And Content of TV Programmes 19 February 1971 *''One Man's Week – John Peel'' 20 February 1971 *Galia von Meck 24 February 1971 *Underground Soviet Magazines / ''The Music Lovers'' / Tambimuttu 26 February 1971 *''One Man's Week – Godfrey Winn'' 27 February 1971 *''One Man's Week – Gwyn Thomas (novelist), Gwyn Thomas'' 6 March 1971 *Harold Lloyd Interview / BBC Bias / James Brown Interview 12 March 1971 *Croagh Patrick Pilgrimage – The Reek 17 March 1971 *''One Man's Week – P. J. Kavanagh'' 27 March 1971 *''One Man's Week – Lord Chalfont'' 3 April 1971 *Anthony Hopkins Interview 6 April 1971 *''One Man's Week – Richard Ingrams'' 10 April 1971 *Jimmy Wheeler 12 April 1971 *''One Man's Week – Humphrey Lyttelton'' 17 April 1971 *''The Future of Television'' – Debate 20 April 1971 *''Television – An Assessment'' 21 April 1971 *''Television – The Future – Cannes Exhibition'' 23 April 1971 *''One Man's Week – J. B. Priestley'' 24 April 1971 *''Hitler – A Fateful Friendship'' 30 April 1971 *''One Man's Week – Barry Took'' 1 May 1971 *''One Man's Week – Michael Foot'' 8 May 1971 *''One Man's Week – Maurice Levinson'' 15 May 1971 *''One Man's Week – Kenny Everett'' 29 May 1971 *Fred Ball 31 May 1971 *''One Man's Week – John Aspinall (zoo owner), John Aspinall'' 12 June 1971 *''One Woman's Week – Cleo Laine'' 19 June 1971 *Colonel Otto Skorzeny Interview 26 July 1971 *''We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us'' 27 July 1971 *Discussion On Oswald Mosley 28 July 1971 *Museum Discussion 17 August 1971 *''The People Plague'' 18 August 1971 *Daniel Ellsberg 2 September 1971 *Scottish Television 3 September 1971 *Lotte Lehmann 16 September 1971 *Professor Paul Ehrlich 24 September 1971 *Dennis Potter interviewed about ''Traitor (TV drama), Traitor'' 14 October 1971 *Ecology 20 October 1971 *A 4th TV Channel – Discussion 22 October 1971 *Martin Gilbert 25 October 1971 *Fishing 5 November 1971 *Civilia 22 November 1971 *Dance Bands 13 December 1971

1972

*Dutch television, Dutch Television 14 January 1972 *''Up Sunday'' 16 January 1972 *James Moffatt Interview 21 January 1972 *''Up Sunday'' 23 January 1972 *Discussion On Edward Albee 7 February 1972 *International Guitar Competition 23 February 1972 *Malcolm Macdonald 15 March 1972 *''Up Sunday'' – Animation 26 March 1972 *Women's Edition of ''Punch (magazine), Punch'' – Discussion 27 March 1972 *''Up Sunday'' – Events of the Week 9 April 1972 *''The Comedians (1971 TV series), The Comedians'' with Charlie Williams (comedian), Charlie Williams, Bernard Manning, Ken Goodwin (comedian), Ken Goodwin and John Hamp – Discussion 12 April 1972 *''Everybody Likes Little Bit Xtr'' 14 April 1972 *''Ecology – The Club of Rome'' 17 April 1972 *Hetty King 19 April 1972 *''Welcome Little Kangaroo'' – Eight Years of BBC2 21 April 1972 *''Up Sunday'' 23 April 1972 *Steven Scheuer Interview 5 May 1972 *''Up Sunday'' – Events of the Week 7 May 1972 *Sculpture 8 May 1972 *James Joyce 11 May 1972 *Harold Evans Interview 17 May 1972 *Working men's clubs 24 May 1972 *''Up Sunday'' 4 June 1972 *''Ecology – So Far So Good'' 12 June 1972 *World Ecology Conference 16 June 1972 *''An Element in This Country Which I Need'' 12 July 1972 *General Võ Nguyên Giáp Interview 28 July 1972 *Lady Betjeman 1 August 1972 *''All Our Own Work'' 2 August 1972 *Little Richard Interview / Francis Fuchs Interview 4 August 1972 *Cable Vision 9 August 1972 *Claud Cockburn Interview 15 August 1972 *Robert Maxwell Interview 22 August 1972 *Bill Tidy Interview – ''The Fosdyke Saga'' 11 September 1972 *''A Profile of Johnny Speight'' 15 September 1972 *''Pornography, Sex And Freedom'' 29 September 1972 *John Houston 9 October 1972 *Sir Hugh Carleton Greene – Granada Lecture 18 October 1972 *The Vietnam Veterans, Vietnam Veterans 19 October 1972 *Cecil Arthur Lewis 6 November 1972 *Wole Soyinka Interview 20 November 1972 *World Speed Trials 23 November 1972 *Black September (group), Black September 7 December 1972 *Press Photography 13 December 1972 *Last Edition (of original run) – BBC2 Discussion With Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley And

14 December 1972

1986

* Revived for a week to celebrate BBC TV's 50th Anniversary, with Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Joan Bakewell and Sheridan Morley.

2008

* ''Permissive Night'' 26 May 2008 –

discussion of 1960s liberalising legislation with Margaret Drabble, Peter Hitchens, Michael Howard MP and Lord Robert Winston. This edition came from Studio MB1 at the BBC’s Westminster Studios

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