Arts week

Title

Arts week

Genre

Interview; Talk show

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:27:43

Description

Arts Week, presented by Sue Jameson. Part 2 of 2 (the first part, not included here, having begun with an interview with Elizabeth Jane Howard), featuring an interview with Robin Gibson, Curator of the National Portrait Gallery, on the exhibition by Yousuf Karsh. Writer Harold Harris about a new book entitled, Stranger on the Square, about the novelist Arthur Koestler and his wife Cynthia. Also includes a piece about explorer and film maker Robert Flaherty, the first person to visit the Belcher Islands. Film maker Hugh Brodie talks about his new film on the subject, entitled People of the Islands. Also includes an interview with actor Anthony Quayle about his new production, Compass. Ends with the first movement of Elgar’s Symphony No. 2.

Contributors

Sue Jameson; Robin Gibson; Harold Harris; Hugh Brodie; Anthony Quayle

Keywords

Suicide; Margaret Thatcher; Arts; Novelists; Autobiographies; Film makers; Literature; Fidel Castro; Photography; Photographers; Portraits; Political leaders; Art galleries; Cultural exhibitions; Explorers; National Portrait Gallery; Winston Churchill (1874-1965); Yousuf Karsh; Arthur Koestler; Cynthia Koestler; Stranger on the Square; Harold Harris; Robert Flaherty; Anthony Quayle; Edward Elgar; Compass Theatre Company

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