Programme Index

Duration: 20 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 14^th Sep 2010, 22:00 on BBC Four

Shelagh Delaney, the author of A Taste of Honey, looks at Salford, where she grew up and where the action of her plays takes place.

Monitor

27/10/1963

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 27^th Oct 1963, 22:00 on BBC Television

Huw Wheldon chairs a discussion on Hamlet, featuring Ernest Milton, Peter O'Toole and Orson Welles. (1963) Show more

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

Orson Welles

Duration: 20 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 28^th Sep 2008, 20:00 on BBC Four

Orson Welles talks to Huw Wheldon about his work as actor, director and filmmaker, with clips from his films, Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons.

Contributors

Presenter:: Huw Weldon

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Formats

Documentaries

Brand

Monitor

Larkin and Betjeman - Down Cemetery Road

Duration: 25 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 28^th Sep 2008, 20:30 on BBC FourLatest broadcast: Sun 17^th May 2009, 00:50 on BBC Four

Philip Larkin talks to John Betjeman in 1964 about his life, his poetry and the city of Hull where he lived and worked as university librarian.

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

Hitchcock and Wheldon

Duration: 20 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 28^th Sep 2008, 21:40 on BBC Four

Huw Wheldon's interview with legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, from 1964.

Contributors

Presenter:: Huw Weldon

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Formats

Documentaries

Brand

Monitor

Henry Moore

Duration: 20 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 20^th Nov 1960, 22:10 on BBC TelevisionLatest broadcast: Sun 28^th Sep 2008, 20:10 on BBC Four

Available for over a year

First transmitted in 1960, Huw Wheldon visits Henry Moore at his home in the run-up to a major exhibition of his work at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:: Huw Wheldon

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

Pop Goes the Easel

Duration: 42 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 25^th Mar 1962, 21:55 on BBC TelevisionLatest broadcast: Sun 28^th Sep 2008, 20:55 on BBC Four

Available for over a year

Ken Russell's film on the Young British Artists of the day pioneering the Pop Art movement features Peter Blake, Peter Phillips, Derek Boshier and Pauline Boty. (1962) Show more

Contributors

Director:: Ken Russell
Associate Producer:: Nancy Thomas
Associate Producer:: Humphrey Burton
Editor:: Huw Wheldon
Film Editor:: Allan Tyrer
Participant:: Peter Blake
Participant:: Derek Boshier
Participant:: Pauline Boty
Participant:: Peter Phillips

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

A Poet in London

Duration: 12 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 1^st Mar 1959, 22:05 on BBC Television

Available for over a year

First transmitted in 1959, John Betjeman is filmed at different London locations introducing and reciting four of his poems. Show more

Contributors

Participant:: John Betjeman
Director:: Ken Russell
Producer:: Peter Newington
Associate Producer:: Nancy Thomas
Film Editor:: Allan Tyrer
Editor:: Huw Wheldon

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

Joe Tilson

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 1^st Dec 1964, 22:15 on BBC One CambridgeshireLatest broadcast: Tue 1^st Dec 1964, 22:15 on BBC One Yorkshire

Available for over a year

Monitor meets artist Joe Tilson, who gains inspiration from the modern world. (1964) Show more

Contributors

Editor:: Jonathan Miller
Participant:: Peter Brook
Participant:: Joe Tilson
Producer:: Nancy Thomas
Producer:: Christopher Burstall
Producer:: Melvyn Bragg
Film Editor:: Allan Tyrer

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

20/05/1962

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 20^th May 1962, 22:10 on BBC Television

Featuring a short film narrated by Cecil Day-Lewis. Using the text of Vincent Van Gogh's own letters, the programme explores the artist's life. (1962) Show more

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

02/02/1958

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 2^nd Feb 1958, 22:00 on BBC Television

Edition of the arts documentary magazine programme.Huw Wheldon introduces this report from Simon Raven, conversing with Kingsley Amis at the university where he teaches. (1958) Show more

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

12/10/1958

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 12^th Oct 1958, 10:20 on BBC Television

In this excerpt from the arts documentary magazine programme, John Lehmann speaks to Aldous Huxley as the novelist and essayist shares his thoughts on the art of writing. (1958) Show more

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

26/10/1958

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 26^th Oct 1958, 10:15 on BBC Television

Edition of the arts documentary magazine programme featuring author PG Wodehouse, who cheerfully discusses his long writing career, and his eschewal of 'serious' fiction. (1958) Show more

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

21/12/1958

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 21^st Dec 1958, 10:35 on BBC Television

Edition of the arts documentary magazine programme.Featuring an interview with writer EM Forster, who talks about his life and writing. (1958) Show more

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

TH White in Alderney

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 13^th Sep 1959, 10:05 on BBC Television

Edition of the arts documentary magazine programme. TH White talks to Robert Robinson, revealing the connection he sees between physical health and literary skill. (1959) Show more

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

25/10/1959

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 25^th Oct 1959, 10:20 on BBC Television

Edition of the arts documentary magazine programme including an interview with author William Golding, shortly after the publication of his fourth novel, Free Fall. (1959) Show more

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

08/11/1959

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 8^th Nov 1959, 10:15 on BBC Television

In this edition of the arts magazine programme, Christopher Isherwood talks to Robert Robinson about his literary career, and his close friendship with WH Auden. (1959) Show more

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

Elgar

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: Sat 2^nd Jun 2007, 19:00 on BBC FourLatest broadcast: Mon 23^rd Jan 2012, 02:15 on BBC Four

Ken Russell's 1962 biography of the composer Edward Elgar, featuring reconstructed events in his life using actors and made for the 100th edition of documentary strand, Monitor. Show more

Contributors

Narrator:: Huw Wheldon
Director:: Ken Russell

Genres

Formats

Docudramas

Brand

Monitor

Gian Carlo Menotti and Max Ernst

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 24^th Sep 1961, 22:00 on BBC TelevisionLatest broadcast: Wed 12^th Sep 1962, 22:45 on BBC Television

Roland Penrose interviews Max Ernst, the first Surrealist painter, about aspects of his life and work. Gian Carlo Menotti talks to Huw Wheldon about his work as a composer. Show more

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

Brand

Monitor

Making the Bedmakers

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Sun 2^nd Feb 1964, 22:30 on BBC Television

An interview with American artist Robert Rauschenberg on the occasion of his first European exhibition. Plus a look at how TV play The Bedmakers developed from script to screen. Show more

Genres

FactualArts, Culture & the MediaArts

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