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Season 1

  • S01E01 Marble Arch to Edgware

    • January 31, 1968
    • BBC One

    The poet John Betjeman goes on a journey from Marble Arch to Edgware reciting four specially written poems: 'How beautiful the London air,' 'Ho for the Kilburn High Road,' 'The sisters Progress and Destruction dwell' and 'One after one rise these empty consecutives'. Along the way he pauses at places of interest such as the hidden Marble Arch police station from where, since 1851, a hundred policemen could lie in wait ready to emerge at the first hint of trouble. After bemoaning the loss of the Metropolitan Theatre of Variety to make way for a car park and reminiscing about the 1920s air pageants from Hendon Aerodrome, Betjeman arrives "at Edgware, a Middlesex small town that was."

  • S01E02 Graduation Ball

    • October 15, 1967
    • BBC One

    The Royal Danish Ballet performs 'Graduation Ball' in the first of a new series of music and arts features.