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The Best Episodes of Monitor Season 5

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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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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Monitor Season 5 Episode 1 - Gian-Carlo Menotti
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    #1 - Gian-Carlo Menotti

    S5:E1

    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)

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  2. Monitor Season 5 Episode 2 - The Private World of George Williams
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    #2 - The Private World of George Williams

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    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...

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  3. Monitor Season 5 Episode 3 - Ninette de Valois
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    #3 - Ninette de Valois

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    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.

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  4. Monitor Season 5 Episode 4 - Style in the Theatre and Portrait of an Experience
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    #4 - Style in the Theatre and Portrait of an Experience

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    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

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  5. Monitor Season 5 Episode 5 - In Cork
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    #5 - In Cork

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    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...'

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  6. Monitor Season 5 Episode 6 - Big Soft Nellie
    7.2/10(7 votes)

    #6 - Big Soft Nellie

    S5:E6

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

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  7. Monitor Season 5 Episode 7 - Paul Tortelier
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    #7 - Paul Tortelier

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    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.

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  8. Monitor Season 5 Episode 8 - The Lonely Shore
    8.5/10(9 votes)

    #8 - The Lonely Shore

    S5:E8

    The Lonely Shore A fantasy. No one is left alive in England. All that remain are the fragments of our civilisation.

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  9. Monitor Season 5 Episode 9 - Episode 9
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    #9 - Episode 9

    S5:E9

    H.M.S. Pinafore Revisited Sir Tyrone Guthrie gives his views on Gilbert and Sullivan.

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  10. Monitor Season 5 Episode 10 - Do My Ears Deceive Me?
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    #10 - Do My Ears Deceive Me?

    S5:E10

    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.

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  11. Monitor Season 5 Episode 11 - Episode 11
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    #11 - Episode 11

    S5:E11

    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'.

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  12. Monitor Season 5 Episode 12 - Episode 12
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    #12 - Episode 12

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    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

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  13. Monitor Season 5 Episode 13 - Pop Goes the Easel
    7.6/10(52 votes)

    #13 - Pop Goes the Easel

    S5:E13

    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.

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  14. Monitor Season 5 Episode 14 - What Makes a Tenor?
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    #14 - What Makes a Tenor?

    S5:E14

    What Makes a Tenor? Last week the National Federation of Music Societies held a Tenor Competition in London to find promising young singers. Bernard Keeffe of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden discusses the qualities of a great tenor and the reasons why this country has produced so few of them.

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  15. Monitor Season 5 Episode 15 - Episode 15
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    #15 - Episode 15

    S5:E15

    Commercial Art A sidelong glance at the world of advertising. Peter Ustinov in the studio.

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  16. Monitor Season 5 Episode 16 - Vincent Van Gogh
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    #16 - Vincent Van Gogh

    S5:E16

    The Preservation Man, with Professor Bruce Lacey, A.R.C.A. actor, theatrical property-maker, and collector of the past, from stuffed camels to Victorian families, from Victrola voices to rejected vacuum cleaners. In the studio: Michael Tippett on Music in the Theatre. His new opera "King Priam" has its world premiere at the Coventry Festival on May 29 Vincent Van Gogh 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.

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  17. Monitor Season 5 Episode 17 - Julian Bream
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    #17 - Julian Bream

    S5:E17

    Julian Bream A film profile with George Malcolm and the Julian Bream Consort. The Death of Patroclus Christopher Logue talks about his new adaptation of Book XVI of Homer's Iliad and reads scenes from it with Patrick Allen and Gary Watson.

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  18. Monitor Season 5 Episode 18 - Dial for Plato
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    #18 - Dial for Plato

    S5:E18

    In America, as in this country, education is suffering from a shortage of text-books, classroom space, and, above all, of teachers. Sol Cornberg talks to Huw Wheldon about his current projects to tackle this problem in America by applying radio and television techniques to education. My mission is to create the tool which will permit the educator to multiply himself I am concerned with efficient means for the passing of information. Books are extremely inefficient Plato's thoughts have not been used up: he can be made available on a channel A Monitor production

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  19. Monitor Season 5 Episode 19 - Marcel Duchamp
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    #19 - Marcel Duchamp

    S5:E19

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Marcel Duchamp The legendary French artist whose paintings and theories have radically affected modern art - he might be said to have murdered art with irony and then sat down by the corpse to play chess. Interviewed by Richard Hamilton, and discussed also by Reyner Banham and Eduardo Paolozzi.

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  20. Monitor Season 5 Episode 20 - Stratford-on-the-Subway
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    #20 - Stratford-on-the-Subway

    S5:E20

    A Monitor film made in New York's Central Park, where every summer there is a season of free open-air Shakespeare performances with Joe Papp, the director and members of the New York Shakespeare Company in rehearsal.

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Gian-Carlo Menotti" is the best rated episode of "Monitor" season 5. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/24/1961. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Private World of George Williams".