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Monitor Episode Guide

Kingsley Amis
S1 Ep1
2nd Feb 1958
Kingsley Amis interviewed about his new novel "I Like it Here" Peter Brook on "Quarter Ear Music" - illustrated in the studio by a scene from the Stratford Memorial Theatre production of "The Tempest", and by demonstrations of music concrete filmed in the Club d'Essai in Paris. Circus John Schlesinger takes a film camera to Harringay Joseph Cooper at the piano A view of Epstein's sculpture and a report on Tennessee Williams's play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".
Sam Wanamaker
S1 Ep2
16th Feb 1958
Sam Wanamaker A report by Alan Brien on the Liverpool Theatre experiment Sir Hugh Casson on Architecture at Sea The problems involved in designing the architecture and interior decoration of an ocean-going liner Busking as a Business A sidelight Angry Young Men - Cult or Myth? Milton Shulman asks Kenneth Tynan, John Wain, Stuart Holroyd, Colin Wilson, Bill Hopkins
Paris: The Left Bank
S1 Ep3
2nd Mar 1958
Paris: The Left Bank A study of writers, sculptors, painters -both British and American-who live and work on the Left Bank London: The West End London Street Entertainers considered from an American point of view. Candlelight on Canvas Michael Ayrton looks at the work of a painter who has had a strong influence upon his own work, Georges de la Tour, the master of candlelight.
Belgrade Theatre in Coventry
S1 Ep4
16th Mar 1958
Belgrade Theatre in Coventry Monitor reports from the newly regenerated Coventry city centre and visits the Belgrade Theatre, the first civic theatre to be built in Britain since the Second World War. The Italian Opera Season Behind the scenes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. John Bratby at work on murals for the film "The Horse's Mouth" at Shepperton Film Studios.
Episode 5
S1 Ep5
30th Mar 1958
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.
Episode 6
S1 Ep6
13th Apr 1958
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.
Episode 7
S1 Ep7
27th Apr 1958
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.
Episode 8
S1 Ep8
11th May 1958
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.
Episode 9
S1 Ep9
25th May 1958
Theatre-Films-Books Pointing-Sculpture Music-Architecture Presenting people, events, and controversies on film, and in the studio every fortnight. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.
Episode 10
S1 Ep10
8th Jun 1958
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
Episode 11
S1 Ep11
22nd Jun 1958
Theatre - Films - Books - Painting - Sculpture - Music - Architecture Every fortnight presenting people, events, and controversies on film and in the studio. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.
Episode 12
S1 Ep12
6th Jul 1958
Theatre - Films - Books Painting - Sculpture Music - Architecture Every fortnight presenting people, events, and controversies on film and in the studio. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.
Episode 13
S1 Ep13
20th Jul 1958
Theatre - Films - Books - Painting Sculpture - Music - Architecture Presenting people, events, and controversies. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon. (The last in the current series)

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.

The first episode of Monitor aired on February 02, 1958.

The last episode of Monitor aired on June 07, 2024.

There are 183 episodes of Monitor.

There are 8 seasons of Monitor.

Yes.

Monitor is set to return for future episodes.