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The Worst Episodes of Monitor

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The Worst 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...

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    #1 - Kingsley Amis

    S1:E1

    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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    Director:Unknown
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    #2 - Sam Wanamaker

    S1:E2

    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 - Paris: The Left Bank

    S1:E3

    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 - Belgrade Theatre in Coventry

    S1:E4

    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 - Episode 5

    S1:E5

    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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    Director:Unknown
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    #6 - Episode 6

    S1:E6

    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 - Episode 7

    S1:E7

    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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    #8 - Episode 8

    S1:E8

    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 - Episode 9

    S1:E9

    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 - Episode 10

    S1:E10

    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 - Episode 11

    S1:E11

    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 - Episode 12

    S1:E12

    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 - Episode 13

    S1:E13

    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 - Why Cornwall?

    S2:E1

    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 - Backstage at the Rep

    S2:E2

    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 - Episode 3

    S2:E3

    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 - P. G. Wodehouse

    S2:E4

    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 - The Innocent Eye

    S2:E5

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

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    #19 - The Living Suburb

    S2:E6

    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 - Igor Stravinsky

    S2:E7

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

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    #21 - The Face of the Madonna

    S2:E8

    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 - Tyrone Guthrie

    S2:E9

    Tyrone Guthrie on the Stratford Memorial Theatre, Ontario

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    #23 - Georges Simenon

    S2:E10

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

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    #24 - Yehudi Menuhin

    S2:E11

    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 - A Poet In London

    S2:E12

    John Betjeman, A poet in London.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Kingsley Amis" is the worst 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 lower than the second lowest rated, "Sam Wanamaker".