LIVE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME. The first of the series.

Main title over rock band Humble Pie playing to studio audience (02.08). Joe Melia (JM) introduces the new series, explaining the format, and the current evening's guests and events (4.51).

SCULPTURE. JM introduces Frank McKeown, director of the National Gallery of Rhodesia. McKeown talks about the sculptures in the studio, made by the Shona tribe of Rhodesia and on loan from the exhibition at the ICA gallery (12.27).

DANCE. JM introduces Oboade, drummers and dancers from Ghana led by Mustapha Addy. They dance their own version of a popular modern dance, the `Kpanlogo' (13.00). The masked dance (18.13).

SKETCHES. JM talks about the scene in THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) in which Hitler and Mussolini meet and the significance of the seating arrangements. American sociologist, Paul Goodman, has written on the importance of body language in power structures. Actors, including Melia, perform sketches to illustrate this: a boss interviewing a candidate, a judge and the accused, master and servant (26.44). JM talks briefly about Goodman's books (27.28).

CARTOON. JM introduces the Yugoslavian cartoon THE MUSICAL PIG (MUZIKALNO PRASE (1965) (27.48). The cartoon (32.04).

POETRY. JM introduces and speaks with poet Edwin Brock (33.35). Brock reads his poems `Brocks at Home', `Five Ways to Kill a Man', `India', `Song of the Battery Hen', and `Curriculum Vitae' (47.30).

PAINTING. JM introduces film, directed by Anne James, about the work of the German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich (49.03). Martin Jarvis (voice) introduces Friedrich, currently being exhibited at the Tate Gallery, London. Jarvis gives background information on the artist and the pictures and David Hockney gives his personal and critical views as he walks around the paintings (63.68). JM talks to Hockney in the television studio about why he admires Friedrich's paintings work when Hockney's own work is so different. Hockney says he likes `Gothic gloom'. A member of the audience says he found the film `a small-minded piece about an artist of cramped intelligence' (66.00).

SKETCHES. JM reminds the audience of Russian gymnast, Olga Korbut's, success in the Olympic Games. Film of her competing is projected and an actor in the studio pretends to be a gymnast in training trying to emulate her. Sketch written by Adrian Mitchell (69.58).

HUMBLE PIE. Humble Pie sing `Honky Tonk Woman' (73.50). The group re-assembles and Steve Marriot introduces `Tramps and Sailors'. The group performs the song (76.72).

DRAMA. JM introduces E.A. Whitehead's play `The Punishment' the first of three plays by Whitehead commissioned for the series (87.38). The play (101.38). For full credits see main entry.

Tape 2.

0-12.22. Repeat of last 12 mins of the play. JM introduces and talks to Whitehead about the play. Studio debate on the issues raised in the drama, particularly Catholic education (24.37).

MUSIC. JM introduces Cathy Berberian who sings Victorian songs accompanied on the piano by Richard Rodney Bennett (25.27). Berberian sings, in Russian, a Russian song by César Cui; in French `Danse Macabre' by Saint-Saëns; a Chopin prelude `This Fair and Beautious Song' and `Tit Willow' from Gilbert & Sullivan's `The Mikado' (35.05).

SKETCHES. Actors perform a satirical sketch on modern art written by Adrian Mitchell (38.41).

JM comments on items in the Sunday morning papers (40.40). Obade perform over the final credits (45.08). Total running time (146.46).