Every season of Monitor ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Monitor!

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".

Kingsley Amis

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

Sam Wanamaker

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.

Paris: The Left Bank

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.

Belgrade Theatre in Coventry

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.

Episode 5

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.

Episode 6

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.

Episode 7

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.

Episode 8

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.

Episode 9

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

Episode 10

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.

Episode 11

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.

Episode 12

Theatre - Films - Books - Painting

Sculpture - Music - Architecture

Presenting people, events, and controversies.

Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

(The last in the current series)

Episode 13

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

Why Cornwall?

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.

Backstage at the Rep

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.

Episode 3

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.

P. G. Wodehouse

The Innocent Eye

A film study of the child's imagination.

The Innocent Eye

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

The Living Suburb

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

Igor Stravinsky

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.

The Face of the Madonna

Tyrone Guthrie on the Stratford Memorial Theatre, Ontario

Tyrone Guthrie

Georges Simenon, A film profile

and Alfred Wallis Cornish fisherman and painter.

Georges Simenon

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.

Yehudi Menuhin

A Poet In London

A French edition on film and in the studio.

including

Comedie Francaise

Jacques Deval introduces a filmed impression of France's National Theatre to celebrate the company's arrival in London.

Le Corbusier in his Paris studio talking about architecture

Auguste Rodin

The thoughts and work of a sculptor.

French Edition

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.

Episode 14

Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum

The ins and outs of High Fidelity.

A film study directed by John Schlesinger.

Paul Robeson in the studio

Bert Haanstra, Holland's leading film director in the studio, with some of his films.

Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum

Robert Graves in Majorca, a film profile.

Thurston Dart plays the harpsichord, the organ, the piano, and the clavichord, and discusses Handel, a mystery.

Bert Haanstra, Holland's leading film director with extracts from some of his films.

Robert Graves

Paddy Chayefsky, author of 'Marty' and The Bachelor Party' interviewed by Richard Hoggart. With extracts from some of his films.

Leonard Bernstein, Musical Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra composer of West Side Story, On the Town, and Candide.

Paddy Chayefsky

A film study of the birth of a theatre with Bernard Miles.

The Mermaid Theatre

Fritz Kortner, Leading German actor and stage director at work in the Residenztheater, Munich.

Interviewed by Robert Robinson.

From Spain to Streatham: The guitar craze.

Fritz Kortner

A great producer on his approach to opera, filmed during rehearsals for his production of 'Cosi fan Tutte' by Mozart.

Carl Ebert at Glyndebourne

Wanda Landowska

A filmed interview with the world's most famous harpsichord player, who is eighty today.

The Romantic Movement

Paintings from the Council of Europe Exhibition, opening in London on July 10.

Wanda Landowska

The author of "The Sword in the Stone" interviewed on film by Robert Robinson at his home in the Channel Islands.

TH White in Alderney

A filmed profile with an extract from the current production of his play 'Cock-a-Doodle Dandy'.

Sean O'Casey

A fortnightly magazine of the arts.

Introduced by Peter Newington.

Scottish Painters

Allan McClelland narrates this 1959 film by Ken Russell - a double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings.

William Golding

A film profile of the author of "Lord of the Flies" at his home in Salisbury.

William Golding

A recording of Colin Davis rehearsing a movement from a Mozart Symphony with the London Mozart Players.

Christopher Isherwood talks to Robert Robinson about his literary career.

Christopher Isherwood

Sir Thomas Beecham on Delius

Jacques Lipchitz

One of the world's greatest sculptors talks about his work in his New York studio.

Sir Thomas Beecham on Delius

A fortnightly magazine of the arts.

Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

A film study shot in Mexico of the work of the great painter of The Mexican Revolution.

Diego Rivera

Michel St. Denis discussing his production of Stravinsky's 'Oedipus Rex' which opened at Sadler's Wells on Friday, January 15.

Michel St. Denis

Rod Steiger who attacks what he thinks are misconceptions about the 'Method' school of acting, with John Fernald.

Mortimer's Hampstead

An impression in words and pictures by John Mortimer of the part of London where he lives and where the action of his new play 'The Wrong Side of the Park' takes place.

Rod Steiger

Lawrence Durrell, The poet and novelist filmed at his home in the Camargue, talking about his Alexandrian novels.

And an interview with Michelangelo.

Lawrence Durrell

Journey into a Lost World

John Betjeman in the Fun Palaces and Pleasure Domes of London.

Mary McCarthy

The American novelist and critic, author of 'The Company She Keeps', 'A Charmed Life', 'Venice Observed', and others, in an interview recorded in the studio.

Journey into a Lost World

Tonight Orson Welles talks about his work as actor, director, film-maker with extracts from his films 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Magnificent Ambersons'.

Orson Welles

Profile of a Quartet

A film story of the life and work of a string quartet with The Allegri Quartet.

The film directed by Humphrey Burton

The Epstein Collection

of primitive and exotic sculpture

Profile of a Quartet

Cranks at Work

John Cranko choreographer and revue-writer talking about his work directing dancers and rehearsing a new revue.

W. H. Auden in his New York home, talking with Philip Burton

The Strange World of Hieronymus Bosch

Cranks at Work

A fortnightly magazine of the arts presents as a special edition

What does it mean to be a young artist trying to break into the Art World, to live by painting?

Young Artista

Tyrone Guthrie in the studio

Bird-Men and Warriors

Elisabeth Frink and her sculpture as seen by Laurie Lee.

Tyrone Guthrie in the studio

Scenes from 'The Caretaker' now running at the Duchess Theatre, London and an interview with the author Harold Pinter.

The Caretaker

Rudolf Bing at 'The Met'"

A portrait of an impresario filmed at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.

"A Sign of the Times"

A film about the City of Florence.

Episode 19

Tonight's edition includes.

The Miners' Picnic

A brass band carnival filmed at Bedlington, Northumberland.

Picasso

An impression of the century's greatest and most controversial artist with Douglas Cooper, John Berger and a sequence from Paul Haessert's film 'A Visit to Picasso'.

(A retrospective exhibition of Picasso's work, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, opens at the Tate Gallery on July 5)

Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

Episode 20

A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'.

Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

1. Simenon in Switzerland

The creator of Inspector Maigret interviewed at his home near Lausanne.

2. Guitar Craze

A look at the guitar, instrument of 'hound-dogs' and Bach addicts, Her Majesty's prisoners, and Salvation Army bands.

See page 3

Monitor Summer Film Festival

A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'.

Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

-1- The Innocent Eye

A study of the Imagination of children as revealed in their paintings.

-2- Ezra Pound in Italy

A visit to the seventy-four-year-old American poet at the castle of Brunnenburg in North Italy.

A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'.

Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

Lawrence Durrell

The author of the Alexandrian Quartet interviewed at his home in the Camargue.

Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum

A look at Hi-Fi.

Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

Benjamin Britten at Aldeburgh

At work at his home and at rehearsals of his opera 'Noye's Fludde'.

Putney Painters: Ruskin Spear and Carel Wright

Two painters who live and work in the same part of London but who make different worlds of it.

A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'.

Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde

A study of two Scots painters who live, work, and exhibit their paintings together.

Carl Ebert at Glyndebourne

One of the world's leading opera producers filmed at work during his last summer as Artistic Director at Glyndebourne.

A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'.

Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

E.M. Forster at Eighty

A visit to the author of A Passage to India in his rooms at King's College, Cambridge, on his eightieth birthday.

Marie Rambert

A profile of her work as teacher, choreographer, and shaper of talent, seen against the background of her own company, the Ballet Rambert.

A magazine of the arts.

Tonight's edition includes:

Shelagh Delaney's Salford

The twenty-one year old author of "A Taste of Honey" and "The Lion in Love" looks at the town where she was brought up and where the action of both her plays takes place.

Themes and Variations

'To compare a great copy with a great original is to attend a conversation between great artists' with Michael Ayrton.

Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

Episode 1

Darius Milhaud the most prolific composer of today, filmed at his home in Paris.

Musician in Montmartre

The Eye of Cartier-Bresson

The great French photographer at work.

Music through the Looking Glass

The fantasy world of Gerard Hoffnung.

The Eye of Cartier-Bresson

Man in a Landscape

The art of Sidney Nolan, Australian painter.

Lillian Hellman talks to Huw Wheldon

Lillian Hellman

Henry Moore, Sculptor, at home and in his studio.

Henry Moore

The art of Sidney Nolan, australian painter.

Man In A Landscape

Five million people in England go dancing every week.

A look at the strange and varied world of the dancers of England, from jive to ballroom, from folk dancing to flamenco.

The Light Fantastic

Book of Hours

The seasonal calendar of the Duc de Berry.

Zadkine at the Tate

The famous Russian sculptor interviewed by Bernard Williams on the occasion of his retrospective exhibition opening at the Tate Gallery on January 5.

A Book of Hours

In 1960, Huw Wheldon visited Epidaurus and Athens to meet the Greek star of stage and screen Katina Paxinou.  Having initially trained as an opera singer, she moved into acting, helping to re-establish the National Theatre of Greece in 1932.  Due to the outbreak of World War Two, she found herself unable to return to Greece, and so emigrated to the US, soon securing the role of Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls - which won her an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture.  She returned to Greece in 1950 to resume her stage career, and alongside her husband, the actor and director Alexis Minotis, the pair achieved their dream of interpreting the Ancient Greek plays for a modern audience.

Katina Paxinou

Emlyn Williams who is appearing at the Arts Theatre, London, in three plays: "Lunch Hour" by John Mortimer, "A Slight Ache" by Harold Pinter, and "The Form" by N.F. Simpson - under the title "Three".  Tonight he discusses his roles in the plays with extracts from each of them.

George Chapman in the Rhondda

Life in the Welsh mining valleys as seen by the English painter George Chapman.

Emlyn Williams

Ronald Searle on Toulouse-Lautrec

Kingsley Amis on Science Fiction

12/02/1961

The Devils of Loudun

John Whiting returns to Loudun in France to tell the story of the possession by devils in the 17th century of the Ursuline nuns of the town.  His new play 'The Devils' (from which extracts are shown) has just opened at the Aldwych Theatre, London.

Two Composers, Two Worlds

A film about the contrasts in the life and work of two outstanding young composers:  Peter Maxwell Davies, Dudley Moore.

The Devils of Loudun

Young Conductors

A competition for young conductors, organised by the Philharmonia Concert Society and held last month in the Monitor studio at Lime Grove.

Judges: Otto Klemperer, Sir Adrian Boult, Carlo-Maria Giulini, Walter Legge and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill

Kurt Weill was the composer of 'Mack the Knife' and many other songs which created a new style of musical theatre in the Berlin of pre-Hitler days. Lotte Lenya was his wife and his finest interpreter.  With the The English Chamber Orchestra

Jack Yeats

A first view of some of the great Irish artist's early drawings and paintings - work which he decided in the 1920s should not be seen again until three years after his death.

The teacher is Harold Lang.  The students are from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

The Class

...For within the hollow crown

That rounds the mortal temples of a king

Keeps Death his court, and there the antick sits.

Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp;

Allowing him a breath, a little scene

(Richard II, Act 3, Scene 2)

Facts and foibles concerning the Kings and Queens of England with Dorothy Tutin, Max Adrian, Richard Johnson, John Barton.  A selection from the entertainment recently presented at the Aldwych Theatre, London.

Architect at Work: Denys Lasdun

The designer of rehousing schemes; luxury flats; Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge; The Royal College of Physicians, London; houses; banks; laboratories; shops, on the aims and intentions of a modern architect.

The Hollow Crown

Extracts from the controversial production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, and comments on their approach to the part and the play from Ian Bannen who plays Hamlet and Peter Wood who directs the production.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Brecht's Berliner Ensemble

The famous German Theatre Company at rehearsal and in performance at their theatre in East Berlin as seen by Kenneth Tynan with Helene Weigel Brecht's widow and the Ensemble's leading actress and scenes from the Company's production of 'The Threepenny Opera', 'Galileo', 'Arturo Ul'.

Brecht's Berliner Ensemble

Prokofiev

Portrait of a Soviet composer.

Daumier

A double life with illustrations from the Exhibition at the Tate Gallery organised by the Arts Council

Prokofiev

Episode 21

A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years.

In this edition:

Shelagh Delaney's Salford

The twenty-two-year-old author of 'A Taste of Honey' and 'The Lion in Love' looks at the town where she was brought up, and where the action of both her plays takes place.

'... the brilliant meeting with Shelagh Delaney and the vision through her lucid eyes of the restless, slate-grey, black-brick spirit of Salford.....' (Punch)

and

Profile of a Quartet

A film about the life and work of a string quartet with The Allegri Quartet.

'... this elaborate, witty and human film profile....' (New Statesman)

*

Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

Monitor: Summer Film Season

A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years.

In this edition:

Rudolf Bing at the Met

A portrait of an impresario filmed at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.

'You could sense immediately the quality of the man who regards opera singers as spoilt children, who fired Maria Callas, who bends a world-famous institution to his sole will'. (News Chronicle)

and

The Death of Tolstoy

An impression of Tolstoy's last days, compiled from Russian archive newsreel material filmed during his lifetime and at his funeral.

'It was an exciting experience to have this legendary genius, on the hearthrug'. (The Observer)

Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years.

In this edition:

Variations on a Mechanical Theme

An investigation into mechanical instruments from the musical box to the automatic orchestra.

'Much of Monitor's best work has appeared among its miscellaneous short films like "Mechanical Instruments"... a kind of discursive essay which is not generally possible elsewhere in the commercial cinema world' (Sight and Sound) and George Chapman

In The Rhondda

Life in the Welsh mining valleys as seen by English painter George Chapman.

'Chapman's sympathy was in every canvas and model of his that we saw, as Wilfrid Owen's pity for the soldier was in his poetry.' (The Listener)

Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years.

In this edition:

Henry Moore

Sculptor at home and in his studio.

'At their best-the recent Henry Moore film, for instance-they can really seem to reveal something new about an artist and his psychology'. (Sight and Sound)

and

The Miners' Picnic

A brass band carnival filmed at Bedlington in Northumberland.

'...delightful, with only a scarcely perceptible touch of tongue-in-cheek satire'. (New Statesman)

Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

The Light Fantastic

'Five million people in England go dancing every week'

A look at the strange and varied world of the dancers of England, from jive to ballroom, from folk dancing to flamenco.

'That dancing as the subject of cine camera reporting can be compulsive in the extreme was brilliantly demonstrated.... a most encouraging trail-blazing programme' (The Observer)

and

An Interview with Michelangelo

'A relief to return to the heights of the ingeniously presented interview with Michelangelo' (The Listener)

Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years.

In this edition:

Katina Paxinou in Athens

The great tragic actress performing in the ancient Greek amphitheatre and interviewed with her husband Alexis Minotis actor and leading Greek producer.

'Her exposition of the magic of her craft was both electrifying and illuminating'. (Time and Tide)

and

Gerard Hoffnung

A glimpse at the fantasy world of the musical cartoonist.

'A brilliant exploitation of the camera's capacity to give static objects the dimension of music. Hoffnung's musical instruments danced about the screen...' (Western Mail)

Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

Gian-Carlo Menotti

Composer of 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' and 'The Consul', filmed at his

Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto in Italy.

'I never really finish a libretto and then set it to music, I let it burst into flame as I go along'.

Max Ernst

The first Surrealist painter, interviewed by Roland Penrose.

'The most magnificently haunted mind of today' (Andre Breton)

'If painting is the mirror of time it must be mad to have the true image of what the time is' (Max Ernst)

Gian-Carlo Menotti

The Private World of George Williams

Michael Ayrton with Paintings, Sculpture, and Words on The Myth of Icarus

...Icarus, who flew too close to the sun, whose wings melted, and who fell to his death...

The Private World of George Williams

Ninette de Valois D.B.E., creator of The Royal Ballet with film taken during rehearsals for next week's BBC Television production of her ballet The Rake's Progress.

Ninette de Valois

Style in the Theatre and Portrait of an Experience

Michel Saint-Denis now directing rehearsals of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard with the Royal Shakespeare Company talking with Peter Newington.

Poems, prose, and photographs from Flanders and The Somme

Style in the Theatre and Portrait of an Experience

Frank O'Connor, novelist, essayist, and short-story writer, revisits the provincial city where he lived for twenty-eight years and which provides the setting for many of his stories.

'I think all great literature begins in the provinces. If I hadn't left Cork, I'm quite certain I wouldn't have been the writer I am; but I think that if I hadn't been brought up in a city like this, I wouldn't have been a writer at all...'

In Cork

With Henry Livings the author and scenes from the production of his new play now running at the Theatre Royal, Stratford.

Big Soft Nellie

Paul Tortelier

Portrait of a complete musician.  Filmed in Paris at the Salle du Vieux Conservatoire, the Ecole Normale de Musique, and his studio.

In rue Leon Cogniet with John Amis and L'Orchestre des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris, La Chorale des Jeunesses Musicales de France, The Tortelier Cello Orchestra.

Paul Tortelier

The Lonely Shore

A fantasy.

No one is left alive in England. All that remain are the fragments of our civilisation.

The Lonely Shore

H.M.S. Pinafore Revisited

Sir Tyrone Guthrie gives his views on Gilbert and Sullivan.

An enquiry into the music of our day from Jazz to Schoenberg.

Musicians taking part include:

Colin Davis with the London Symphony Orchestra (Leader, Hugh Maguire), Aaron Copland, Michael Tippett, Deryck Cooke, Hans Keller.

Do My Ears Deceive Me?

Friso Ten Holt

The Dutch painter whose first British exhibition opened at the New London Gallery last week talking with John Berger.

'Suddenly the painting begins to talk, to ask its own questions. And you have to respond to that question, otherwise you are never a painter'.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts.

A group of four young artists, who between them have won critical acclaim, exhibition prizes, and Arts Council awards, are among those who have turned for subject-matter to the world of pop singers, pin-ups, space-men, wrestling, and the Twist. Monitor cameras spent an ordinary Saturday with them, from dawn to midnight.

The artists and their pictures:

Peter Blake, Siriol, she-devil of naked madness

Derek Boshier, I wonder what my Heroes think of the Space-race

Pauline Boty, Goodbye, cruel world

Peter Phillips, For Men Only starring MM and BB

Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

Pop Goes the Easel

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.

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