Three programmes which set out to examine different aspects of the role played by the artist in society during a thousand years of European civilisation.
Introduced by Ronald Fletcher, Professor of Sociology, University of York.

Contributors include: Anthony Burgess on The Novelist Today
with the recorded voices of Janette Richer, Drew Russell, Tony Bronte, John Woodnutt.

Alan Ridout on Composing To Commission
with Members of the Guildford Cathedral Choir Choir-Master, Barry Rose and Donald Francke (baritone), Noel Clarke (piano).

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith on The Cinema as a Social Force
with excerpts from Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Avventura".
Excerpt from "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot spoken by Joyce Hemson.