Monitor

tv show

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183 total episodes

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8 seasons

First Aired February 02, 1958

Overview

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 set about moulding a team of talents, including John Schlesinger, Ken Russell, Patrick Garland, David Jones, Humphrey Burton, John Berger, Peter Newington, Melvyn Bragg, Nancy Thomas and Alan Tyrer. Monitor ranged in subject over all the arts. Wheldon's Monitor lasted until he had "interviewed everyone I am interested in interviewing", and he was succeeded by Jonathan Miller for the series' last season.

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Poet in a Society

Season 6 - Episode 3 - 0h 0m

Air Date

October 14, 1962

Overview

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