Documentary series taking a serious and wide-ranging look at the arts, encompassing intellectual subject matter and popular culture.
The Lively Arts (Season 2)
A Little Night Music (Episode 1)
Air date: 1977-01-02
The Challenge of Success (Episode 2)
Air date: 1977-01-09
Behind the Mask:The Theatre Music of Henry Purcell (Episode 3)
Air date: 1977-01-16
Live from Fairfield Halls, Croydon (Episode 4)
Air date: 1977-01-23
Arthur Rubinstein - Love of Life (Episode 5)
Air date: 1977-01-30
Are We Together? (Episode 6)
Air date: 1977-02-06
Kubelik at the Lucerne Festival (Episode 7)
Air date: 1977-02-13
A Matter of Opinion - Focus on the Music Critics (Episode 8)
Air date: 1977-02-20
Music in Jerusalem (Episode 9)
Air date: 1977-02-27
Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827 - The Last Years (Episode 10)
Air date: 1977-03-06
Festa in Montepulciano - Hans Werner Henze's International Workshop (Episode 11)
Air date: 1977-03-13
Charles Rosen Plays Beethoven's 33 Variations on a Theme by Diabelli (Episode 12)
Air date: 1977-03-20
In Performance: The Rostropovich-Bernstein Gala Concert (Episode 13)
Air date: 1977-03-26
Walton at 75 (Episode 14)
Air date: 1977-03-27
Whose Dr. Who (Episode 15)
Air date: 1977-04-03
In Performance: The Magic Flute (Episode 16)
Air date: 1977-04-09
A Portrait of Sean O'Faolain (Episode 17)
Air date: 1977-04-10
In Performance: Leonard Bernstein at the English Bach Festival (Episode 18)
Air date: 1977-04-16
Shades: Three Plays by Samuel Beckett (Episode 19)
Air date: 1977-04-17
In Performance: Giselle and the National Ballet of Canada (Episode 20)
Air date: 1977-04-23
Jessica Mitford: The Honourable Rebel (Episode 21)
Air date: 1977-04-24
In Performance: Gwyneth Jones (Episode 22)
Air date: 1977-04-30
Vienna - The Mask of Gold (Episode 23)
Air date: 1977-05-01
In Performance: Salome (Episode 24)
Air date: 1977-05-07
Bogey-Man - Prophet - Guardian 1: Crossing the Frontier 1874-1914 (Episode 25)
Air date: 1977-05-08
In Performance: The Camden Jazz Festival (Episode 26)
Air date: 1977-05-14
Bogey-Man - Prophet - Guardian 2: In Defence of Culture 1914-1951 (Episode 27)
Air date: 1977-05-15
In Performance: The Dance Theatre of Harlem (Episode 28)
Air date: 1977-05-21
Berg (Episode 29)
Air date: 1977-05-22
In Performance: Te Deum by Berlioz (Episode 30)
Air date: 1977-05-28
A Different Beauty: The Music of Anton Webern (1883-1945) (Episode 31)
Air date: 1977-05-29
In Performance: Sir Adrian Boult (Episode 32)
Air date: 1977-06-04
Orpheus in the Underground (Episode 33)
Air date: 1977-06-05
Dave Brubeck at Symphony Hall (Episode 34)
Air date: 1977-06-12
Tito Gobbi's Opera Workshop (Episode 35)
Air date: 1977-06-19
Live from the Royal Albert Hall (Episode 36)
Air date: 1977-07-03
100 Years of Russian Piano Music (Episode 37)
Air date: 1977-07-17
Claude Monet (Episode 38)
Air date: 1977-08-07
Purely for Pleasure - The Wallace Collection (Episode 39)
Air date: 1977-08-14
Edinburgh International Festival 1977 (Episode 40)
Air date: 1977-08-21
James Herriot - Portrait of a Bestseller (Episode 41)
Air date: 1977-08-28
Animals and Man (Episode 42)
Air date: 1977-09-18
In Performance: Prince Igor (Episode 43)
Air date: 1977-09-24
In Performance: Romeo and Juliet (Episode 44)
Air date: 1977-10-01
The Changing of the Avant-Garde (Episode 45)
Air date: 1977-10-02
In Performance: Turangalîla (Episode 46)
Air date: 1977-10-08
The Great Orchestras: The Cleveland Orchestra (Episode 47)
Air date: 1977-10-09
In Performance: Fidelio (Episode 48)
Air date: 1977-10-15
Like Poetry! (Episode 49)
Air date: 1977-10-16
In Performance: Perahia Plays Mozart (Episode 50)
Air date: 1977-10-22
John Fowles (Episode 51)
Air date: 1977-10-23
In Performance: A Ballet Triple Bill (Episode 52)
Air date: 1977-10-29
Greetings from the New World (Episode 53)
Air date: 1977-10-30
In Performance: The Bolshoi Opera in Boris Godunov (Episode 54)
Air date: 1977-11-05
In Performance: The Bolshoi Opera in The Nutcracker (Episode 55)
Air date: 1977-11-06
In Performance: A Gala Concert from Moscow (Episode 56)
Air date: 1977-11-12
Flamenco - The World of Paco Peña (Episode 57)
Air date: 1977-11-13
In Performance: Boulez at the Royal Albert Hall (Episode 58)
Air date: 1977-11-19
Dick Francis - Big Jump (Episode 59)
Air date: 1977-11-20
In Performance: The Royal Concert (Episode 60)
Air date: 1977-11-26
Oscar Peterson on Improvisation (Episode 61)
Air date: 1977-11-27
In Performance: Macbeth by Verdi (Episode 62)
Air date: 1977-12-03
Three Loud Amens (Episode 63)
Air date: 1977-12-04
In Performance: Male Voices of Wales (Episode 64)
Air date: 1977-12-10
Nolan at Sixty (Episode 65)
Air date: 1977-12-11
Len Deighton (Episode 66)
Air date: 1977-12-18
Karen Kain - Ballerina (Episode 67)
Air date: 1977-12-24