Episode 7

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: What the Dickens Johnny Dankworth has just completed a record album whose themes are based on characters from Charles Dickens. Tonight's film suggests some of the elements that have gone into the music and tell the story of the disc from composition to completion with Cleo Laine, Tubby Hayes, The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra and Cyril Luckham as Charles Dickens. and Nottingham's New Playhouse Nottingham's new civic theatre opened ten days ago. The building alone cost £370.000. Its directors believe passionately that provincial theatre is due for a revival. Their aim: a theatre with real roots in a compact community with Sir Tyrone Guthrie, John Neville, Frank Dunlop and The citizens of Nottingham.