Many years ago the BBC was a world class broadcaster; politically neutral, comedy that was actually funny and unafraid to broadcast high brow content. Unlike today where it is just politically correct, low brow “entertainment”. A panacea for the masses. In the good old days the BBC were unafraid to give us some of the greatest series that television has ever seen. Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark had an immense intellectual backbone and covered a huge canvas of knowledge. Jacob Bronowski’s Ascent of Man, just four years later did the same job for science. And in 1980 the BBC broadcast the eight one hour episodes of The Shock of the New, written and presented by Robert Hughes “the most famous art critic in the world”. This panoramic, watchable, insightful series brought an understanding of modern art to tens of millions of people. One of the BBC’s greatest achievements. And now available on YouTube.
The Threshold of Liberty – Examining the surrealists’ attempts to make art without restrictions.
Then 25 years later Robert Hughes made a single, one hour, follow up programme, The New Shock of the New.
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