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Watching: Monitor
7.3•1958-02-02•8 Seasons
Season 5
Episode 6
Episodes
EP 1
Gian-Carlo Menotti
EP 2
The Private World of George Williams
EP 3
Ninette de Valois
EP 4
Style in the Theatre and Portrait of an Experience
EP 5
In Cork
EP 6
Big Soft Nellie
EP 7
Paul Tortelier
EP 8
The Lonely Shore
EP 9
Episode 9
EP 10
Do My Ears Deceive Me?
EP 11
Episode 11
EP 12
Episode 12
EP 13
Pop Goes the Easel
EP 14
What Makes a Tenor?
EP 15
Episode 15
EP 16
Vincent Van Gogh
EP 17
Julian Bream
EP 18
Dial for Plato
EP 19
Marcel Duchamp
EP 20
Stratford-on-the-Subway
EP 99
Episode 99
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.