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Watching: Monitor
7.3•1958-02-02•8 Seasons
Season 8
Episode 2
Episodes
EP 1
Episode 1
EP 2
Joe Tilson
EP 3
Larkin and Betjeman: Down Cemetery Road
EP 4
A Christmas Stocking
EP 5
Robert Lowell
EP 6
Empson Apart
EP 7
David Sylvester: What the Pundits Say
EP 8
Beginning to End
EP 9
Matters of Time
EP 10
JB: A Portrait of Sir John Barbirolli
EP 11
Choice of Surroundings
EP 12
People in Rather Odd Circumstances
EP 13
Silence, Exile, and Cunning
EP 14
Norman Mailer
EP 15
The Debussy Film
EP 16
The Frozen Frame
EP 17
Private Eye and Public Place
EP 18
Always on Sunday
EP 19
Art and Delusion
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.