21 episodes

Monitor - Season 2

First aired Sep 14, 1958Season 2

Browse all 21 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Why Cornwall?

NR
Sep 14, 1958

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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Episode 2

Backstage at the Rep

NR
Sep 28, 1958

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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Episode 3

Episode 3

NR
Oct 12, 1958

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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Episode 4

P. G. Wodehouse

NR
Oct 26, 1958

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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Episode 5

The Innocent Eye

NR
Nov 9, 1958

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

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Episode 6

The Living Suburb

NR
Nov 23, 1958

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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Episode 7

Igor Stravinsky

NR
Dec 7, 1958

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

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Episode 8

The Face of the Madonna

NR
Dec 21, 1958

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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Episode 9

Tyrone Guthrie

NR
Jan 4, 1959

Tyrone Guthrie on the Stratford Memorial Theatre, Ontario

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Episode 10

Georges Simenon

NR
Jan 18, 1959

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

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Episode 11

Yehudi Menuhin

NR
Feb 15, 1959

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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Episode 12

A Poet In London

NR
Mar 1, 1959

John Betjeman, A poet in London.

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Episode 13

French Edition

NR
Mar 15, 1959

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.

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Episode 14

Episode 14

NR
Mar 29, 1959

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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Episode 15

Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum

NR
Apr 12, 1959

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.

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Episode 16

Robert Graves

NR
Apr 26, 1959

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.

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Episode 17

Paddy Chayefsky

NR
May 10, 1959

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.

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Episode 18

The Mermaid Theatre

NR
May 24, 1959

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

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Episode 19

Fritz Kortner/Spain to Streatham: The Guitar Craze

NR
Jun 7, 1959

Fritz Kortner, Leading German actor and stage director at work in the Residenztheater, Munich. Interviewed by Robert Robinson. Spain to Streatham: The Guitar Craze. A tour of how Britons are enthusiastically taking up the guitar in all sorts of ways.

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Episode 20

Carl Ebert at Glyndebourne

NR
Jun 21, 1959

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

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Episode 21

Wanda Landowska

NR
Jul 5, 1959

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.