The Prince of Denmark

Overview

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Degas: A Dancing World Edgar Degas, the great French Impressionist painter, became in his later years so involved in the world of the Paris Opera Ballet that he seemed to re-live in his art every movement, every gesture of the dancer's body. Margaret Dale looks at the world he created in the light of her own experience as dancer and choreographer. The Prince of Denmark The National Theatre opened last week with Shakespeare's Hamlet. Peter O'Toole talks about the part and the play with Ernest Milton a great Hamlet of the 1920s.