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Watching: Monitor
7.3•1958-02-02•8 Seasons
Season 2
Episode 2
Episodes
EP 1
Why Cornwall?
EP 2
Backstage at the Rep
EP 3
Episode 3
EP 4
P. G. Wodehouse
EP 5
The Innocent Eye
EP 6
The Living Suburb
EP 7
Igor Stravinsky
EP 8
The Face of the Madonna
EP 9
Tyrone Guthrie
EP 10
Georges Simenon
EP 11
Yehudi Menuhin
EP 12
A Poet In London
EP 13
French Edition
EP 14
Episode 14
EP 15
Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum
EP 16
Robert Graves
EP 17
Paddy Chayefsky
EP 18
The Mermaid Theatre
EP 19
Fritz Kortner/Spain to Streatham: The Guitar Craze
EP 20
Carl Ebert at Glyndebourne
EP 21
Wanda Landowska
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.