Series:

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	Witting and unwitting testimony		15 January 1987	This programme looks at the wide variety of historical sources available to the historian. It opens...
	Poetry : language and history		19 January 1987	This programme consists of edited interviews with the writer Tom Paulin and the critic Terry...
	Handel's Messiah		09 June 1987	This programme investigates how Handel's oratorio 'Messiah' was composed, and how it was originally...
	Cragside		01 April 1987	This programme explores Cragside House, built by Lord Armstrong the armaments manufacturer. As...
	Wheels of progress		1989	Few technological developments so captured the popular imagination during the first half of the...
	Mantegna : the triumph of Caesar		16 August 1986
	The English landscape garden		1987	Colin Cunningham explores the garden of Rousham House, Oxfordshire, designed by William Kent in...
	What is music?		1987	Using examples from John Cage, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Western folk music,...
	Language and literature		10 March 1987	This programme comprises an investigation of how language works and examines the differences...
	Narrative		18 March 1987	This programme analyses how narrative works. Umberto Eco suggests that all novels are a sort of...