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Watching: Monitor
7.3•1958-02-02•8 Seasons
Season 6
Episode 1
Episodes
EP 1
African Art
EP 2
Brendan Behan with Colin MacInnes
EP 3
Poet in a Society
EP 4
Father and Son
EP 5
Elgar: Portrait of a Composer
EP 6
Lawrence of Arabia
EP 7
A Sculpture in the Making
EP 8
A Child's Christmas in Wales
EP 9
Tortelier on Bach
EP 10
Episode 10
EP 11
This Sporting Life
EP 12
Roosevelt, U.S.A.
EP 13
New Art from Africa
EP 14
J. B. Priestley
EP 15
A sight so touching in its majesty...? The New Face of London
EP 16
Kenneth Williams
EP 17
Portrait of Margaret Evans
EP 18
Episode 18
EP 19
Georg Solti of Covent Garden
EP 20
Mozart from Vienna
EP 21
Watch the Birdie
EP 22
Farewell to the Vic
EP 23
Eugene O'Neill
EP 24
Les Structures Sonores
EP 25
The Sermon
EP 26
Orchestra to the Orient
EP 27
Art in a Cold Climate
EP 28
The Muse in S.W.1
EP 29
Nobody Loves a Man in Jail
EP 30
Go Tell It on the Mountain
EP 31
Yehudi Menuhin and His Guru
EP 32
Summer in Salzburg
EP 33
Tomorrow's Theatre
Overview
Monitor was a BBC arts programme that was launched on 2 February 1958 and ran until 1965. Huw Wheldon was the first editor from 1958 to 1965. He was also the principal interviewer and anchor. Wheldon set about moulding a team of talents, including John Schlesinger, Ken Russell, Patrick Garland, David Jones, Humphrey Burton, John Berger, Peter Newington, Melvyn Bragg, Nancy Thomas and Alan Tyrer. Monitor ranged in subject over all the arts. Wheldon's Monitor lasted until he had "interviewed everyone I am interested in interviewing", and he was succeeded by Jonathan Miller for the series' last season.