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Watching: Monitor
7.3•1958-02-02•8 Seasons
Season 7
Episode 10
Episodes
EP 1
Walking, Talking, Laughing Dance
EP 2
Film Man's Sketch Book
EP 3
The Prince of Denmark
EP 4
A Sense of Order
EP 5
Footmarks in Time: Thomas Hardy
EP 6
Francisco Goya
EP 7
Episode 7
EP 8
Death of My Mother
EP 9
The Lost Michelangelo
EP 10
Making the Bedmakers
EP 11
'An Aged Novelist': Waugh at 60
EP 12
Episode 12
EP 13
The Marks of Violence
EP 14
Poet Laureate
EP 15
Engraver in Montparnasse
EP 16
The New Generation 1964
EP 17
The Power of Myth
EP 18
Bela Bartok
EP 19
Jean Tinguely sculptor
EP 20
Alfred Hitchcock
EP 21
Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: York and Lancaster
EP 22
Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Meeting the Children
EP 23
Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: The Dog in the Night
EP 24
Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Life Flows and Overflows
EP 25
Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: The Prodigal
EP 26
Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Abdication and Aggression
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.