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| 1968 - Day By Day Omnibus | ...Another chance to look back at the events making the news 40 years ago with JOHN TUSA.... |
| 1968 - Day By Day | ...JOHN TUSA looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago.... |
| 1968 - The Year Of Revolutions | ...JOHN TUSA and guests discuss the impact of the tumultuous world events of 1968, from civil rights marches in the US to riots in Paris and violence in Prague.... |
| 1989 - Day By Day Omnibus | ...Another chance to look back at the events making the news 20 years ago, with Sir JOHN TUSA... |
| 1989 - Day By Day | ...Sir JOHN TUSA looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago.... |
| 1989 - How The Wall Fell | ...In a special discussion programme, Sir JOHN TUSA explores the fall of the Berlin Wall.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...Fifty years on, JOHN TUSA reconsiders a unique and terrible episode that marked the onset of the Cold War.... |
| Art Matters | ...JOHN TUSA, managing director of the Barbican Centre in LONDON, presents five talks based on essays from his new collection. Today, he discusses the history of the battle for the arts in this country and asks: the arts - can we do without them?... |
| Darkness Into Light | ...Presented by JOHN TUSA.... |
| Get Carter! | ...Rural life, the lovelorn, and the power of music are themes explored in Elliott Carter's choral pieces, just as they are in the works of the three Elizabethan madrigalists whose music he's always admired. In this concert, live from St Giles Church in the Barbican, JOHN TUSA introduces a sequence of works by all four composers.... |
| Going Dutch - The John Tusa Interview | |
| Hukvaldy | ...In 1921 Janácek bought a cottage in his native village. JOHN TUSA meets descendants of family and friends in Hukvaldy, and Dennis Marks tells the story of Janácek's developing obsession with Kamila Stosslova, married and less than half his age.... |
| I Am A Storyteller | ...The Dancing Master's Music (1st broadcast 10/06/1997), The Penthouse Apartment (28/07/1998), The Forty-Seventh Saturday (25/01/1980), Beyond the Pale (08/07/1980), Solitude (25/05/2004) and The JOHN TUSA Interview, excerpts (12/06/2005).... |
| Iran - A Revolutionary State | ...JOHN TUSA presents the last of three programmes chronicling the making of modern Iran. The fall of the Shah and the unstoppable rise of Ayatollah Khomeini led to the creation of the world's first Islamic republic. How has the nation adjusted to rule by clerics?... |
| John Tusa Interview, The | ...The JOHN TUSA Interview... |
| Monday Documentary, The [world Service] | ...JOHN TUSA traces what made 1968 such a climactic year. Student protests, Soviet might,.... |
| Music Matters Public Forum | ...`Whose Music?'. Is the Labour government abandoning high culture for easy populism? Ivan Hewett chairs a public debate about the controversial issue of the government's music policies. He is joined by arts minister Alan Howarth; JOHN TUSA, managing director of the Barbican Centre; pianist Joanna MacGregor, a member of the Arts Council; and writer and former Conservative minister George Walden.... |
| Opera On 3 | ...Presented by JOHN TUSA in conversation with Dennis Marks, the opera's performers, and director David Pountney.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Presented by JOHN TUSA.... |
| Sources Of Schnittke | ...JOHN TUSA explores the influences on Alfred Schnittke with the help of those who knew and worked with him. Schnittke was born in Stalin's Soviet Union, and his personal and artistic life was often dictated by the cultural and political whims of Communist Russia. However, he ended his life in the reunified Germany and was also inspired by music and ideas from the West.... |
| Sunday Feature | ...The JOHN TUSA Interview: Series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators. This week John meets the painter, teacher and father of Brit Art, Michael Craig-Martin.... |
| Thermal Inversion | ...JOHN TUSA looks back to his childhood on the East Tilbury estate of Bata, the Czech shoe company which arrived in Britain in the early 1930s. A little piece of Czechoslovakia on the Essex marshes, the new garden city housed thousands of factory workers. John uncovers the stories of those men and women who, like his father, left Czechoslovakia to build Bata factories in Britain and around the world.... |
| Tribute To John Drummond, A | ...JOHN TUSA presents a tribute to John Drummond, one of the foremost figures in the Arts in the UK. He was Director of the Edinburgh Festival, the BBC Proms and... |
| Twenty Minutes | ...talks to JOHN TUSA about his life and career, and some of the composers who have influenced him.... |
| Uncovering Iran - A Revolutionary State | ...JOHN TUSA begins a new series chronicling the making of modern Iran. John journeys through a turbulent century, which began with the constitutional revolution of 1906.... |