Creative Person; Robert Graves
- Series
- Creative Person
- Episode
- Robert Graves
- Producing Organization
- WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/516-9g5gb1zc97
- NOLA Code
- CRPN
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Robert Greaves, distinguished British poet and novelist, was born in London in 1895. He left England shortly after World War I for Majorca, Spain, and except for infrequent visits, has never returned. He has written more than 100 volumes of prose and poetry including Goliath and David, The Penny Fiddle: Poems for Children, The Treasure Box, The White Goddess, I, Claudius, and Hercules, My Shipmate. In this program, the only television interview granted by the poet-novelist on his recent lecture tour of the United State, Graves talks with Robert Cromie, editor of the Chicago Tribunes Book Today magazine, about his current project, a re-translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to eliminate inaccuracies in the 19th century translation. Graves also reads The Persian Version and other of his poems, and comments on the publics receptivity to poetry. Two of Greaves other poems, My Name is I and The Reader Over My Shoulder, and an excerpt from his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, are read by John Sommers, the programs executive producer. The Creative Person Robert Graves is a 1967 presentation of National Educational Television, produced by WTTW, the NET affiliate station in Chicago, Illinois, and underwritten by the Illinois Bell Telephone Company. Note: This program was intended to air as #45 of Creative Person, but it was withdrawn due to technical difficulties. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- This series focuses on the private vision of the creative person. Each program is devoted to a 20th century artist whose special qualities of imagination, taste, originality, intelligence, craftsmanship, and individuality have marked him as a pace-setter in his field. These artists --- whose fields span the entire gamut of the art world --- include filmmaker Jean Renoir, poet John Ciardi, industrial designer Raymond Loewy, Hollywood producer-director King Vidor, noted Broadway couple Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, artist Leonard Baskin, humorist James Thurber, satirist Robert Osborn, Indian musician Ravi Shankar, poet P. G. Wodehouse, painter Georges Braque, former ballet star Olga Spessivtzeva, Rudolf Bing, and Marni Nixon. The format for each program has been geared to the individual featured; Performance, interview, and documentary technique are employed interchangeably. The Creative Person is a 1965 production of National Educational Television. The N.E.T. producers are Jack Sameth, Jac Venza, Lane Slate, Thomas Slevin, Brice Howard, Craig Gilbert, and Jim Perrin. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Performance
- Topics
- Literature
- Media type
- other
- Credits
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Director: Arnonoff, Aida
Executive Producer: Sommers, Jack
Guest: Graves, Robert
Host: Cromie, Robert
Performer: Sommers, Jack
Producer: Kassel, Virginia
Producing Organization: WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)
Set Designer: Lowenstein, Mike
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Creative Person; Robert Graves,” American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 22, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-9g5gb1zc97.
- MLA: “Creative Person; Robert Graves.” American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 22, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-9g5gb1zc97>.
- APA: Creative Person; Robert Graves. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-9g5gb1zc97