Monitor
tv show
183 total episodes
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8 seasons
First Aired February 02, 1958
Genres:
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.
Matters of Time
Season 8 - Episode 9 - 0h 0m
Air Date
March 09, 1965
Overview
with Jonathan Miller Robert Lowell Widely regarded as the greatest living American poet, Lowell talks in this film about the challenges of his craft and reads poems in which he grapples with the problems of time and tradition. Time Is A film made by Don Levy for the Nuffield Unit of the History of Ideas on the subject of time-the abstract idea which man created and still only partly understands. Narration adapted and spoken by John Wain.