Episode guide
Monitor: Season 8
19 episodes · first aired Nov 17, 1964
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- 1 Episode 1 Nov 17, 1964 The opening programme in the new series. Introduced by Jonathan Miller.
- 2 Joe Tilson Dec 1, 1964 With Jonathan Miller including Peter Brook with actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company talking about the portrayal of madness. Monitor meets artist Joe Tilson, who gains inspiration…
- 3 Larkin and Betjeman: Down Cemetery Road Dec 15, 1964 With Jonathan Miller including: Philip Larkin, who talks to John Betjeman about himself and his poetry and the city of Hull where he lives. "From a purely practical point of view it's nice…
- 4 A Christmas Stocking Dec 29, 1964 With Jonathan Miller. Including: Dwight MacDonald, the American critic talking to Robert Kee… Sandy Claus, by Barry Humphries… Father Christmas, as seen by the French anthropologist Claud…
- 5 Robert Lowell Jan 12, 1965 with Jonathan Miller; including: Robert Lowell. The Pulitzer prize-winning American poet filmed in New York and Boston. Second of a series on living poets… Michael Podro. Art as detective…
- 6 Empson Apart Jan 26, 1965 with Jonathan Miller including Empson Apart William Empson holds a curious and special place among modern English poets. He started life as a mathematician and wrote much of his poetry, as…
- 7 David Sylvester: What the Pundits Say Feb 9, 1965 with Jonathan Miller. including David Sylvester: What the Pundits Say David Sylvester, the art critic, takes a sidelong look at the critics as they discuss the paintings of the American…
- 8 Beginning to End Feb 23, 1965 with Jonathan Miller A television exploration of the world of Samuel Beckett. [Starring] Jack MacGowran Since Waiting for Godot burst on a startled and sometimes outraged English audience…
- 9 Matters of Time Mar 9, 1965 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…
- 10 JB: A Portrait of Sir John Barbirolli Mar 11, 1965 With Lady Barbirolli, The Halle Orchestra (Leader, Martin Milner), The Orchestra of the Royal Manchester College of Music, The King's Lynn Quartet and members of the Halle Concert Society…
- 11 Choice of Surroundings Mar 23, 1965 with Jonathan Miller Dobcross Henry Livings, the young English playwright, left London to live in Dobcross, a small workaday village near Oldham. His friends there work in the local mills…
- 12 People in Rather Odd Circumstances Apr 6, 1965 with Jonathan Miller Including: People in Rather Odd Circumstances The poems, drawings, and conversation of Stevie Smith. and Poet As Art Critic Michael Podro on the art criticism of the…
- 13 Silence, Exile, and Cunning Apr 20, 1965 A film on James Joyce Written by Anthony Burgess
- 14 Norman Mailer May 4, 1965
- 15 The Debussy Film May 18, 1965 · 1h 22m Wives, mistresses, and the sinister Pierre Louys, artist, photographer, pornographer, make up the strange circle surrounding the life and music of the French composer. A new feature…
- 16 The Frozen Frame Jun 1, 1965 A programme on the illustration of the instantaneous. Including The Camera and the Canvas Aaron Scharf describes the impact of photography on painters during the last hundred years, and in…
- 17 Private Eye and Public Place Jun 15, 1965 Donald McCullin A film portrait of the prize-winning news photographer which brings us face to face with the courage and energy of one of the most exciting figures in modern…
- 18 Always on Sunday Jun 29, 1965 · 45m A new film produced and directed by Ken Russell about Henri 'Douanier' Rousseau artist-painter. The excise clerk who became the great primitive painter-his friendship with Alfred Jarry…
- 19 Art and Delusion Jul 13, 1965 Three ways of looking at the world. Why so thin? The art critic, John Berger looks at the work of the great sculptor, Giacometti whose strange spindly figures have been one of the great…