Monitor
Season 3
Fortnightly arts show from the BBC, covering the worlds of theatre, film, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture and music.
Where to Watch Monitor • Season 3
26 Episodes
- William Golding
E4William GoldingScottish 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. - Rod SteigerE10
Rod SteigerRod 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. - Journey into a Lost WorldE12
Journey into a Lost WorldJourney 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. - Episode 20E20
Episode 20Tonight'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. - Monitor Summer Film FestivalE21
Monitor Summer Film FestivalA 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 FestivalE22
Monitor Summer Film FestivalA 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. - Monitor Summer Film FestivalE24
Monitor Summer Film FestivalEdited 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. - Monitor Summer Film FestivalE25
Monitor Summer Film FestivalA 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. - Monitor Summer Film FestivalE26
Monitor Summer Film FestivalA 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.