Tempo - Season 7

1. Information

Aired: 1/1/1967

The old idea of a fixed, unchanging world has been thrown out. In today's world of information, can the artist provide a crucial early warning system of coming changes?

2. Nostalgia

Aired: 1/8/1967

Nostalgia is.. Good..? Bad..? Is life today too hectic and rushed? Does nostalgia close one's eye to the present?

3. Take a Simple Action and Look at It

Aired: 2/12/1967

An attempt to explain and visualise the experience of a person undergoing an LSD trip. The film uses repetition and changes to audio and visual perception via avant garde techniques.

4. Performer and Composer: Daniel Barenboim on Beethoven

Aired: 8/6/1967

5. Performer and Composer: George Malcolm on Scarlatti

Aired: 8/13/1967

6. Performer and Composer: Gervase de Peyer on Brahms

Aired: 8/20/1967

7. Performer and Composer: Vlado Perlemuter on Ravel

Aired: 9/24/1967

8. Performer and Composer: Janet Baker on Schumann

Aired: 10/8/1967

9. Contemporary Drama: Waiting for Godot

Aired: 12/17/1967

10. The Actor and the Role: Irene Worth

Aired: 3/3/1968

11. The Actor and the Role: Edith Evans

Aired: 3/17/1968

12. The Actor and the Role: Donald Pleasence

Aired: 3/31/1968

13. The Actor and the Role: Sybil Thorndike

Aired: 4/7/1968

14. The Actor and the Role: Michael Hordern

Aired: 4/14/1968

Michael Hordern stars as the exiled Prospero, who lives on a desolate island with his daughter Miranda. When his usurping brother Antonio sails by, Prospero uses magic to conjure a storm that wrecks the ship and torments the survivors, including the King of Naples and Antonio, thus changing all of their lives.

15. The Actor and the Role: Diane Cilento – Miss Julie

Aired: 6/3/1968

16. Expendability

Aired: 6/24/1968

A discussion on expendability.