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The Best Episodes of Monitor

Every episode of Monitor ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Monitor!

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

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    Monitor Season 1 Episode 1 - Kingsley Amis
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    #1 - Kingsley Amis

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    Kingsley Amis interviewed about his new novel "I Like it Here" Peter Brook on "Quarter Ear Music" - illustrated in the studio by a scene from the Stratford Memorial Theatre production of "The Tempest", and by demonstrations of music concrete filmed in the Club d'Essai in Paris. Circus John Schlesinger takes a film camera to Harringay Joseph Cooper at the piano A view of Epstein's sculpture and a report on Tennessee Williams's play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

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  2. Monitor Season 1 Episode 2 - Sam Wanamaker
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    #2 - Sam Wanamaker

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    Sam Wanamaker A report by Alan Brien on the Liverpool Theatre experiment Sir Hugh Casson on Architecture at Sea The problems involved in designing the architecture and interior decoration of an ocean-going liner Busking as a Business A sidelight Angry Young Men - Cult or Myth? Milton Shulman asks Kenneth Tynan, John Wain, Stuart Holroyd, Colin Wilson, Bill Hopkins

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  3. Monitor Season 1 Episode 3 - Paris: The Left Bank
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    #3 - Paris: The Left Bank

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    Paris: The Left Bank A study of writers, sculptors, painters -both British and American-who live and work on the Left Bank London: The West End London Street Entertainers considered from an American point of view. Candlelight on Canvas Michael Ayrton looks at the work of a painter who has had a strong influence upon his own work, Georges de la Tour, the master of candlelight.

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  4. Monitor Season 1 Episode 4 - Belgrade Theatre in Coventry
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    #4 - Belgrade Theatre in Coventry

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    Belgrade Theatre in Coventry Monitor reports from the newly regenerated Coventry city centre and visits the Belgrade Theatre, the first civic theatre to be built in Britain since the Second World War. The Italian Opera Season Behind the scenes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. John Bratby at work on murals for the film "The Horse's Mouth" at Shepperton Film Studios.

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  5. Monitor Season 1 Episode 5 - Episode 5
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    #5 - Episode 5

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    Theatre-Films-Books Painting-Sculpture Music-Architecture Presenting people, events, and controversies on film, and in the studio every fortnight. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

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  6. Monitor Season 1 Episode 6 - Episode 6
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    Theatre - Films - Books Painting-Sculpture Music-Architecture Presenting people, events, and controversies on film, and in the studio every fortnight. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

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  7. Monitor Season 1 Episode 7 - Episode 7
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    Theatre-Films Books-Painting-Sculpture Music-Architecture Presenting people, events, and controversies on film, and in the studio every fortnight. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

    Director:John Schlesinger
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  8. Monitor Season 1 Episode 8 - Episode 8
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    #8 - Episode 8

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    Theatre-Films-Books Painting-Sculpture Music-Architecture Presenting people, events and controversies on film, and in the studio every fortnight. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

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  9. Monitor Season 1 Episode 9 - Episode 9
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    #9 - Episode 9

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    Theatre-Films-Books Pointing-Sculpture Music-Architecture Presenting people, events, and controversies on film, and in the studio every fortnight. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

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  10. Monitor Season 1 Episode 10 - Episode 10
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    #10 - Episode 10

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    Theatre-Films-Books Painting-Sculpture Music-Architecture Presenting people, events, and controversies on film and in the studio every fortnight. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon

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  11. Monitor Season 1 Episode 11 - Episode 11
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    #11 - Episode 11

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    Theatre - Films - Books - Painting - Sculpture - Music - Architecture Every fortnight presenting people, events, and controversies on film and in the studio. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

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  12. Monitor Season 1 Episode 12 - Episode 12
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    #12 - Episode 12

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    Theatre - Films - Books Painting - Sculpture Music - Architecture Every fortnight presenting people, events, and controversies on film and in the studio. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

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  13. Monitor Season 1 Episode 13 - Episode 13
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    #13 - Episode 13

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    Theatre - Films - Books - Painting Sculpture - Music - Architecture Presenting people, events, and controversies. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon. (The last in the current series)

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  14. Monitor Season 2 Episode 1 - Why Cornwall?
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    #14 - Why Cornwall?

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    Why Cornwall? A film survey - Barbara Hepworth, Bernard Leech, W.S. Graham, Peter Lanyon, and others give their reasons for living and working in Cornwall Leonide Massine in the studio

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  15. Monitor Season 2 Episode 2 - Backstage at the Rep
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    #15 - Backstage at the Rep

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    Backstage at the Rep Monitor cameras go behind the scenes in a Northern Repertory Theatre. Two Different Worlds Hammersmith Reach through the eyes of the painters Carel Weight and Ruskin Spear.

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  16. Monitor Season 2 Episode 3 - Episode 3
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    #16 - Episode 3

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    Duke Ellington on jazz, with Humphrey Lyttelton and Johnny Dankworth and his Orchestra; Aldous Huxley interviewed by John Lehmann; John Berger discusses three paintings of the nude; and Cilli Wang.

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  17. Monitor Season 2 Episode 4 - P. G. Wodehouse
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    #17 - P. G. Wodehouse

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    P. G. Wodehouse in an interview filmed in New York Shadow of Heroes Extracts from the play with Peggy Ashcroft, Emlyn Williams, Mogens Wieth, Stephen Murray and an interview with the author, Robert Ardrey. And Aaron Copland on being an American composer.

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  18. Monitor Season 2 Episode 5 - The Innocent Eye
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    #18 - The Innocent Eye

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    The Innocent Eye A film study of the child's imagination.

    Director:John Schlesinger
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Monitor Season 2 Episode 6 - The Living Suburb
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    #19 - The Living Suburb

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    The Living Suburb A filmed report on a new experiment in city design, and an interview with its architects and William Alwyn on Writing For Films

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  20. Monitor Season 2 Episode 7 - Igor Stravinsky
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    #20 - Igor Stravinsky

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    Igor Stravinsky talking about his music, his life, and his friends.

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  21. Monitor Season 2 Episode 8 - The Face of the Madonna
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    #21 - The Face of the Madonna

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    The Face of the Madonna as seen by nine great artists. A Line on Satire Three points of view from cartoonists - Andre Francois, Osbert Lancaster, Ronald Searle filmed at work in their studios Circus A filmed study by John Schlesinger.

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  22. Monitor Season 2 Episode 9 - Tyrone Guthrie
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    #22 - Tyrone Guthrie

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    Tyrone Guthrie on the Stratford Memorial Theatre, Ontario

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  23. Monitor Season 2 Episode 10 - Georges Simenon
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    #23 - Georges Simenon

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    Georges Simenon, A film profile and Alfred Wallis Cornish fisherman and painter.

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  24. Monitor Season 2 Episode 11 - Yehudi Menuhin
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    #24 - Yehudi Menuhin

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    Yehudi Menuhin talks about the personality and music of Bela Bartok and plays illustrations from the solo sonata Bartok wrote for him. Theatre Workshop: A filmed report with Joan Littlewood and Gerry Raffles.

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  25. Monitor Season 2 Episode 12 - A Poet In London
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    #25 - A Poet In London

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    John Betjeman, A poet in London.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Kingsley Amis" is the best rated episode of "Monitor". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/2/1958. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Sam Wanamaker".