October 5, 1974
The first programme in a new series of 2nd House examines The Who phenomenon. In 1964 a rock group made their first public appeara...Read more
October 19, 1974
An exhibition of painter Paul Klee's later works opened last week at the Bristol Art Gallery. Randy Newman talks to Charlie Gillet...Read more
November 2, 1974
A documentary celebrating different aspects of our national sport in music, verse and drama.
November 16, 1974
Willy Russell's hit musical at the Lyric Theatre charts the rise and fall of The Beatles. At the Royal Academy, the largest collec...Read more
November 30, 1974
On his recent visit to London, Athol Fugard was interviewed by Melvyn Bragg and tonight's programme brings together extracts from ...Read more
December 14, 1974
A new selection of stories by the Brothers Grimm, translated and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, restores to these fairy tales thei...Read more
January 4, 1975
A documentary entertainment in England's forgotten language dialect performed in the accent of those for whom Barth will always be...Read more
January 18, 1975
This month, the Victoria and Albert Museum celebrates the great Vincent Van Gogh's years in England. 2nd House filmed Thorn Gunn, ...Read more
February 1, 1975
In January 1885 John Lee, a young servant, was condemned to death in Exeter for the murder of his employer. For reasons that have ...Read more
February 15, 1975
Melvyn Bragg talks to James Toback, the New York College lecturer and occasional sports-writer who has written the story and the s...Read more
March 1, 1975
A personal documentary written and presented by Michael Frayn.
March 16, 1975
Trevor Griffiths's new play opened to rave notices at the Nottingham Play-house at the end of February. An exhibition devoted to t...Read more
April 5, 1975
2nd House explores in verse, drama, cartoon, documentary and song how our views of wedlock have shifted in recent times from the V...Read more
April 19, 1975
The first part of tonight's programme is devoted to artists and craftsmen who are brightening up our environment. Extracts from so...Read more
May 3, 1975
Tonight's programme takes an affectionate look at radio comedy from the earliest days of the British Broadcasting Company right up to the present day.
May 17, 1975
Composer Gordon Crosse and Alan Garner have taken the Cheshire legend of Potter Thompson as the starting point for their children'...Read more
August 9, 1975
Exactly 30 years ago today, nuclear physicist Philip Morrison supervised the loading of the A-bomb which was dropped on Nagasaki. ...Read more