Monitor
tv show
183 total episodes
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8 seasons
First Aired February 02, 1958
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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.
Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Abdication and Aggression
Season 7 - Episode 26 - 0h 0m
Air Date
October 04, 1964
Overview
Hugo Dyson talking to four American graduates studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. This week: Abdication and Aggression To end his present series on Tragedy, Mr. Dyson examines four totally different abdicators, Richard II, Hamlet, King Lear, and Prospero - and finds a connection between their apparent renunciation, and a strange form of demand. A Monitor presentation