0196

Stories about Ballet
with David Wood

 
 
0946

The Sleeping Beauty

04:40pm - 04:55pm Monday, 27th April 1970

  Some of the most famous ballets are based on very unusual stories, and this week the fantastic plots of five ballets will be told. They are stories about fantastic creatures half human and half bird, about princes and princesses and about wizards and witches who can cast all kinds of spells.
     
0947

Coppelia

04:40pm - 04:55pm Tuesday, 28th April 1970

     
0948

Swan Lake

04:40pm - 04:55pm Wednesday, 29th April 1970

     
0949

The Nutcracker

04:40pm - 04:55pm Thursday, 30th April 1970

     
0950

The Firebird

04:40pm - 04:55pm Friday, 1st May 1970

 

Next week: ‘The Runaway Summer’ by Nina Bawden.

     
      
Written by not known  
Adapted by Paul Stone  
Model Figures & Theatre Designed by Peter Rush  
Musical Adviser Paul Reade  
Directed by Paul Stone  
Produced by David Turnbull  
Series Producer Anna Home
Channel BBC-1 (monochrome)
Archive format non-extant
     
  ©David Hamilton/ Steve Rogers 2006
No reprinting allowed without express permission.