Monitor S02E14 · Episode 14

Air date: 1959-03-29

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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.

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  1. 1 1. Why Cornwall?1958-09-14Why Cornwall? A film survey - Barbara Hepworth, Bernard Leech, W.S. Graham, Peter Lanyon, and others give their reasons for living and working in Cornwall Leonide Massine in the
  2. 2 2. Backstage at the Rep1958-09-28Backstage at the Rep Monitor cameras go behind the scenes in a Northern Repertory Theatre. Two Different Worlds Hammersmith Reach through the eyes of the painters Carel Weight a
  3. 3 3. Episode 31958-10-12Duke Ellington on jazz, with Humphrey Lyttelton and Johnny Dankworth and his Orchestra; Aldous Huxley interviewed by John Lehmann; John Berger discusses three paintings of the nu
  4. 4 4. P. G. Wodehouse1958-10-26P. G. Wodehouse in an interview filmed in New York Shadow of Heroes Extracts from the play with Peggy Ashcroft, Emlyn Williams, Mogens Wieth, Stephen Murray and an interview with
  5. 5 5. The Innocent Eye1958-11-09The Innocent Eye A film study of the child's imagination.
  6. 6 6. The Living Suburb1958-11-23The Living Suburb A filmed report on a new experiment in city design, and an interview with its architects and William Alwyn on Writing For Films
  7. 7 7. Igor Stravinsky1958-12-07Igor Stravinsky talking about his music, his life, and his friends.
  8. 8 8. The Face of the Madonna1958-12-21The Face of the Madonna as seen by nine great artists. A Line on Satire Three points of view from cartoonists - Andre Francois, Osbert Lancaster, Ronald Searle filmed at work in
  9. 9 9. Tyrone Guthrie1959-01-04Tyrone Guthrie on the Stratford Memorial Theatre, Ontario
  10. 10 10. Georges Simenon1959-01-18Georges Simenon, A film profile and Alfred Wallis Cornish fisherman and painter.
  11. 11 11. Yehudi Menuhin1959-02-15Yehudi Menuhin talks about the personality and music of Bela Bartok and plays illustrations from the solo sonata Bartok wrote for him. Theatre Workshop: A filmed report with Joan
  12. 12 12. A Poet In London1959-03-01John Betjeman, A poet in London.
  13. 13 13. French Edition1959-03-15A French edition on film and in the studio. including Comedie Francaise Jacques Deval introduces a filmed impression of France's National Theatre to celebrate the company's arri
  14. 14 14. Episode 141959-03-29Theatre - Films - Books - Painting Sculpture - Music - Architecture Presenting people, events, and controversies on film and in the studio every fortnight. Introduced and edited
  15. 15 15. Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum1959-04-12Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum The ins and outs of High Fidelity. A film study directed by John Schlesinger. Paul Robeson in the studio Bert Haanstra, Holland's leading film director in the stud
  16. 16 16. Robert Graves1959-04-26Robert Graves in Majorca, a film profile. Thurston Dart plays the harpsichord, the organ, the piano, and the clavichord, and discusses Handel, a mystery. Bert Haanstra, Holland's
  17. 17 17. Paddy Chayefsky1959-05-10Paddy Chayefsky, author of 'Marty' and The Bachelor Party' interviewed by Richard Hoggart. With extracts from some of his films. Leonard Bernstein, Musical Director of the New Yor
  18. 18 18. The Mermaid Theatre1959-05-24A film study of the birth of a theatre with Bernard Miles.
  19. 19 19. Fritz Kortner/Spain to Streatham: The Guitar Craze1959-06-07Fritz Kortner, Leading German actor and stage director at work in the Residenztheater, Munich. Interviewed by Robert Robinson. Spain to Streatham: The Guitar Craze. A tour of how
  20. 20 20. Carl Ebert at Glyndebourne1959-06-21A great producer on his approach to opera, filmed during rehearsals for his production of 'Cosi fan Tutte' by Mozart.
  21. 21 21. Wanda Landowska1959-07-05Wanda Landowska. A filmed interview with the world's most famous harpsichord player, who is eighty today. The Romantic Movement. Paintings from the Council of Europe Exhibition, o