Introduced by Keith Dewhurst

A Slightly Shocking Spectacle
...the words of Lytton Strachey, biographer of Queen Victoria and Elizabeth and Essex talking about his own life and that of his friends, the tight-knit society of Bloomsbury. They could perhaps be equally used to describe biography in general!
One of Strachey's friends, novelist Virginia Woolf, is the subject of a new biography, and Review talks to Quentin Bell, its author, and to Michael Holroyd, Strachey's biographer, about how such lives are written - and what, in fact, went on between those two great Titans of literary London.

Whoever was Heath Robinson?
His name has entered the language to describe those fantastic 'contraptions' he invented in cartoons for more than 40 years.
To celebrate this month's centenary of his birth, tonight we look back at the work of one of the most popular English humorists.

Monsters, Unicorns and 'Femmes Fatales'
- the world of Gustave Moreau, French symbolist painter, a man who wrote 'I only believe in what I do not see.' This film on Moreau marks the opening next week at London's Hayward Gallery of a major exhibition of symbolist painting - a whole 19th-century art movement hardly known in this country.