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The Best Episodes of Monitor Season 6

Every episode of Monitor Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Monitor Season 6!

The Best Episodes of Monitor Season 6

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...

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    #1 - African Art

    S6:E1

    African Art A special report from the first International Congress of African Culture, held last month in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. A Master Class by Nadia Boulanger Today is the 75th birthday of Nadia Boulanger, who as conductor, teacher of composers, and trainer of musicians has been one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century music with David Wilde (piano), Jerzy Gajek (piano), The Ambrosian Singers and a class of students from the Royal College of Music.

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    #2 - Brendan Behan with Colin MacInnes

    S6:E2

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Brendan Behan with Colin MacInnes

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    #3 - Poet in a Society

    S6:E3

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Poet in a Society A film study of Roy Fuller. Poet, novelist, and solicitor to one of the 'Big Five' Building Societies Poems should be defendable like prose; Like blood, unclotted; even like a nose Not half an inch too long

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    #4 - Father and Son

    S6:E4

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Father and Son Jean Renoir the film director talks about his father the great French painter Auguste Renoir.

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    #5 - Elgar

    S6:E5

    For its 100th programme A film biography written and directed by Ken Russell. Commentary by Huw Wheldon. Behind the public image of pomp and circumstance lies the extraordinary story of the piano-tuner's son from Worcester who, unknown and unsung until he was past forty, became the authentic voice of Edwardian England - 'he has reached the hearts of the people' - yet remained through all his public triumphs and private pains an enigmatic, powerful, and mysterious figure.

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    #6 - Lawrence of Arabia

    S6:E6

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Peter O'Toole talking with Kenneth Griffith about his approach to the part of T. E. Lawrence. Filmed on location in Spain during the final stages of the shooting of Lawrence of Arabia

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    #7 - A Sculpture in the Making

    S6:E7

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: A Sculpture in the Making David Wynne recently finished a 16 ft. 6 in. marble statue called 'The Breath of Life', now outside Hammersmith House in London. A camera recorded each stage in its construction and with the use of 'rushes' from this filming the sculptor describes the whole process.

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    #8 - A Child's Christmas in Wales

    S6:E8

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas.

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    #9 - Tortelier on Bach

    S6:E9

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Tortelier on Bach The French cellist comes to the Monitor studio to talk about Bach and play his music.

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    #10 - Episode 10

    S6:E10

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

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    #11 - This Sporting Life

    S6:E11

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: This Sporting Life A feature on the new film and the men who made it. The director, Lindsay Anderson The author, David Storey The producer, Karel Reisz

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    #12 - Roosevelt, U.S.A.

    S6:E12

    A film about Ben Shahn's America A Monitor feature made at the home of the painter Ben Shahn in Roosevelt, New Jersey, on the occasion of the unveiling of the Shahn memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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    #13 - New Art from Africa

    S6:E13

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: New Art from Africa Introduced by Frank McEwen, Director of the National Gallery of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. 'Traditional African art is dead; the tragedy of contemporary African art is that it can find no proper outlet..... It faces three destructive dangers: "airport art" for the tourist trade; Christian Mission School art; and European Art School art..... But I am also witness to what I believe to be a completely new African art'.

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    S6:E14

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: In the studio, J. B. Priestley

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    #15 - A sight so touching in its majesty...? The New Face of London

    S6:E15

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: A sight so touching in its majesty...? The New Face of London Those taking part include: Richard Llewellyn Davies Professor of Architecture, University College, London John Stillman, Architect

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    #16 - Kenneth Williams

    S6:E16

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Kenneth Williams Group Improvisation - A New Approach to Composition A discussion between Lukas Foss and Hans Keller with the Lukas Foss Ensemble of Los Angeles, California who play examples of their collective musical improvisations.

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    #17 - Portrait of Margaret Evans

    S6:E17

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Portrait of Margaret Evans A film by David Storey author of This Sporting Life. Margaret Evans is a painter; her first solo exhibition opened in London this month. She was born in Wigan, is married with four children, and lives in Hampstead.

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    #18 - Episode 18

    S6:E18

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

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    #19 - Georg Solti of Covent Garden

    S6:E19

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Georg Solti of Covent Garden An interview with the Musical Director of the Royal Opera House on the eve of its new production of The Marriage of Figaro.

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    #20 - Mozart from Vienna

    S6:E20

    A Eurovision relay direct from the Vienna Festival. Rudolf Serkin and The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Conducted by Karl Bohm) play Mozart's Piano Concerto in C major (K.467) Presented by the Austrian Television Service Introduced from the Monitor studio in London by Antony Hopkins who talks about Mozart and his piano concertos.

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    #21 - Watch the Birdie

    S6:E21

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts Introduced by Huw Wheldon Tonight's programme includes: Watch the Birdie Low life and high fashion in the world of David Hurn one of the new generation of professional photographers. A film by Ken Russell.

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    #22 - Farewell to the Vic

    S6:E22

    Tonight the Old Vic Company, the 'Home of Shakespeare' in London since 1914, gives its last performance in the Waterloo Road. Looking back on the story of a remarkable theatre in tonight's programme are: Robert Atkins, Michael Benthall, John Blatchley, Richard Burton, Michael Elliott, Edith Evans, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Tyrone Guthrie, John Neville, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Tommy Steele, Sybil Thorndike, Ninette de Valois.Introduced by Michael Flanders. With Outside Broadcast cameras at the Old Vic for the closing moments of Measure for Measure with The Old Vic Company In the presence of their President H.R.H. The Princess Marina Duchess of Kent A Monitor presentation

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    #23 - Eugene O'Neill

    S6:E23

    Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Eugene O'Neill Playwright extraordinary, Nobel Prize-winner, and one of the greatest figures of the American theatre. Burgess Meredith and Jack MacGowran in a scene from Hughie one of O'Neill's last plays which ten years after his death is now receiving its first English-speaking production at the Duchess Theatre, London.

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    #24 - Les Structures Sonores

    S6:E24

    New instruments... new sounds... A fabulous new world of music created and explored by the Lasry-Baschet Group from Paris, now making a return visit to England after their successful debut in Monitor last December. The Inventors: Francois and Bernard Baschet The Musicians: Jacques Lasry (crystal organ and echogrill), Yvonne Lasry (crystal organ), Jacques Chollet (bass tubes), Daniel Ouzounov (percussion) A Monitor presentation

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    #25 - The Sermon

    S6:E25

    A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: The Sermon Specially written for Monitor by Peter Redgrove. [Starring] Michael Hordern and A Viking at the Chateau of Louis XVI A visit to the home of one of the new Europeans, Robert Jacobsen, Danish by birth, one-time tramp, collector of African art, and sculptor in iron.

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"African Art" is the best rated episode of "Monitor" season 6. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/16/1962. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Brendan Behan with Colin MacInnes".