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Theatre - Films - Books - Painting Sculpture - Music - Architecture Presenting people, events, and controversies. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon. (The last in the current series)

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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".

Wanda 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, opening in London on July 10.

A great producer on his approach to opera, filmed during rehearsals for his production of 'Cosi fan Tutte' by Mozart.

Fritz 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 Britons are enthusiastically taking up the guitar in all sorts of ways.

A film study of the birth of a theatre with Bernard Miles.

Paddy 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 York Philharmonic Orchestra composer of West Side Story, On the Town, and Candide.

Robert 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 leading film director with extracts from some of his films.

Hi-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 studio, with some of his films.

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.

A 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 arrival in London. Le Corbusier in his Paris studio talking about architecture Auguste Rodin The thoughts and work of a sculptor.

John Betjeman, A poet in London.

Yehudi 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 Littlewood and Gerry Raffles.

Georges Simenon, A film profile and Alfred Wallis Cornish fisherman and painter.

Tyrone Guthrie on the Stratford Memorial Theatre, Ontario

The 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 their studios Circus A filmed study by John Schlesinger.

Igor Stravinsky talking about his music, his life, and his friends.

The 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

The Innocent Eye A film study of the child's imagination.

P. 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 the author, Robert Ardrey. And Aaron Copland on being an American composer.

Duke 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 nude; and Cilli Wang.

Backstage 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 and Ruskin Spear.

Why 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 studio

A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'. Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon. E.M. Forster at Eighty A visit to the author of A Passage to India in his rooms at King's College, Cambridge, on his eightieth birthday. Marie Rambert A profile of her work as teacher, choreographer, and shaper of talent, seen against the background of her own company, the Ballet Rambert.

A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'. Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon. Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde A study of two Scots painters who live, work, and exhibit their paintings together. Carl Ebert at Glyndebourne One of the world's leading opera producers filmed at work during his last summer as Artistic Director at Glyndebourne.

Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon. Benjamin Britten at Aldeburgh At work at his home and at rehearsals of his opera 'Noye's Fludde'. Putney Painters: Ruskin Spear and Carel Wright Two painters who live and work in the same part of London but who make different worlds of it.

A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'. Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon. Lawrence Durrell The author of the Alexandrian Quartet interviewed at his home in the Camargue. Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum A look at Hi-Fi.

A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'. Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon. -1- The Innocent Eye A study of the Imagination of children as revealed in their paintings. -2- Ezra Pound in Italy A visit to the seventy-four-year-old American poet at the castle of Brunnenburg in North Italy.

A selection from the first three years of 'Monitor'. Edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon. 1. Simenon in Switzerland The creator of Inspector Maigret interviewed at his home near Lausanne. 2. Guitar Craze A look at the guitar, instrument of 'hound-dogs' and Bach addicts, Her Majesty's prisoners, and Salvation Army bands. See page 3

Tonight's edition includes. The Miners' Picnic A brass band carnival filmed at Bedlington, Northumberland. Picasso An impression of the century's greatest and most controversial artist with Douglas Cooper, John Berger and a sequence from Paul Haessert's film 'A Visit to Picasso'. (A retrospective exhibition of Picasso's work, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, opens at the Tate Gallery on July 5) Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

Rudolf Bing at 'The Met'" A portrait of an impresario filmed at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. "A Sign of the Times" A film about the City of Florence.

Scenes from 'The Caretaker' now running at the Duchess Theatre, London and an interview with the author Harold Pinter.

Tyrone Guthrie in the studio Bird-Men and Warriors Elisabeth Frink and her sculpture as seen by Laurie Lee.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts presents as a special edition What does it mean to be a young artist trying to break into the Art World, to live by painting?

Cranks at Work John Cranko choreographer and revue-writer talking about his work directing dancers and rehearsing a new revue. W. H. Auden in his New York home, talking with Philip Burton The Strange World of Hieronymus Bosch

Profile of a Quartet A film story of the life and work of a string quartet with The Allegri Quartet. The film directed by Humphrey Burton The Epstein Collection of primitive and exotic sculpture

Tonight Orson Welles talks about his work as actor, director, film-maker with extracts from his films 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Magnificent Ambersons'.

Journey into a Lost World John Betjeman in the Fun Palaces and Pleasure Domes of London. Mary McCarthy The American novelist and critic, author of 'The Company She Keeps', 'A Charmed Life', 'Venice Observed', and others, in an interview recorded in the studio.

Lawrence Durrell, The poet and novelist filmed at his home in the Camargue, talking about his Alexandrian novels. And an interview with Michelangelo.

Rod Steiger who attacks what he thinks are misconceptions about the 'Method' school of acting, with John Fernald. Mortimer's Hampstead An impression in words and pictures by John Mortimer of the part of London where he lives and where the action of his new play 'The Wrong Side of the Park' takes place.

Michel St. Denis discussing his production of Stravinsky's 'Oedipus Rex' which opened at Sadler's Wells on Friday, January 15.

A film study shot in Mexico of the work of the great painter of The Mexican Revolution.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

Sir Thomas Beecham on Delius Jacques Lipchitz One of the world's greatest sculptors talks about his work in his New York studio.

A recording of Colin Davis rehearsing a movement from a Mozart Symphony with the London Mozart Players. Christopher Isherwood talks to Robert Robinson about his literary career.

Scottish Painters Allan McClelland narrates this 1959 film by Ken Russell - a double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings. William Golding A film profile of the author of "Lord of the Flies" at his home in Salisbury.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Peter Newington.

A filmed profile with an extract from the current production of his play 'Cock-a-Doodle Dandy'.

The author of "The Sword in the Stone" interviewed on film by Robert Robinson at his home in the Channel Islands.

A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years. In this edition: Katina Paxinou in Athens The great tragic actress performing in the ancient Greek amphitheatre and interviewed with her husband Alexis Minotis actor and leading Greek producer. 'Her exposition of the magic of her craft was both electrifying and illuminating'. (Time and Tide) and Gerard Hoffnung A glimpse at the fantasy world of the musical cartoonist. 'A brilliant exploitation of the camera's capacity to give static objects the dimension of music. Hoffnung's musical instruments danced about the screen...' (Western Mail) Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

The Light Fantastic 'Five million people in England go dancing every week' A look at the strange and varied world of the dancers of England, from jive to ballroom, from folk dancing to flamenco. 'That dancing as the subject of cine camera reporting can be compulsive in the extreme was brilliantly demonstrated.... a most encouraging trail-blazing programme' (The Observer) and An Interview with Michelangelo 'A relief to return to the heights of the ingeniously presented interview with Michelangelo' (The Listener) Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years. In this edition: Henry Moore Sculptor at home and in his studio. 'At their best-the recent Henry Moore film, for instance-they can really seem to reveal something new about an artist and his psychology'. (Sight and Sound) and The Miners' Picnic A brass band carnival filmed at Bedlington in Northumberland. '...delightful, with only a scarcely perceptible touch of tongue-in-cheek satire'. (New Statesman) Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years. In this edition: Variations on a Mechanical Theme An investigation into mechanical instruments from the musical box to the automatic orchestra. 'Much of Monitor's best work has appeared among its miscellaneous short films like "Mechanical Instruments"... a kind of discursive essay which is not generally possible elsewhere in the commercial cinema world' (Sight and Sound) and George Chapman In The Rhondda Life in the Welsh mining valleys as seen by English painter George Chapman. 'Chapman's sympathy was in every canvas and model of his that we saw, as Wilfrid Owen's pity for the soldier was in his poetry.' (The Listener) Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years. In this edition: Rudolf Bing at the Met A portrait of an impresario filmed at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. 'You could sense immediately the quality of the man who regards opera singers as spoilt children, who fired Maria Callas, who bends a world-famous institution to his sole will'. (News Chronicle) and The Death of Tolstoy An impression of Tolstoy's last days, compiled from Russian archive newsreel material filmed during his lifetime and at his funeral. 'It was an exciting experience to have this legendary genius, on the hearthrug'. (The Observer) Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years. In this edition: Shelagh Delaney's Salford The twenty-two-year-old author of 'A Taste of Honey' and 'The Lion in Love' looks at the town where she was brought up, and where the action of both her plays takes place. '... the brilliant meeting with Shelagh Delaney and the vision through her lucid eyes of the restless, slate-grey, black-brick spirit of Salford.....' (Punch) and Profile of a Quartet A film about the life and work of a string quartet with The Allegri Quartet. '... this elaborate, witty and human film profile....' (New Statesman) * Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

Prokofiev Portrait of a Soviet composer. Daumier A double life with illustrations from the Exhibition at the Tate Gallery organised by the Arts Council

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

Brecht's Berliner Ensemble The famous German Theatre Company at rehearsal and in performance at their theatre in East Berlin as seen by Kenneth Tynan with Helene Weigel Brecht's widow and the Ensemble's leading actress and scenes from the Company's production of 'The Threepenny Opera', 'Galileo', 'Arturo Ul'.

Extracts from the controversial production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, and comments on their approach to the part and the play from Ian Bannen who plays Hamlet and Peter Wood who directs the production.

...For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antick sits. Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene (Richard II, Act 3, Scene 2) Facts and foibles concerning the Kings and Queens of England with Dorothy Tutin, Max Adrian, Richard Johnson, John Barton. A selection from the entertainment recently presented at the Aldwych Theatre, London. Architect at Work: Denys Lasdun The designer of rehousing schemes; luxury flats; Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge; The Royal College of Physicians, London; houses; banks; laboratories; shops, on the aims and intentions of a modern architect.

The teacher is Harold Lang. The students are from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill Kurt Weill was the composer of 'Mack the Knife' and many other songs which created a new style of musical theatre in the Berlin of pre-Hitler days. Lotte Lenya was his wife and his finest interpreter. With the The English Chamber Orchestra Jack Yeats A first view of some of the great Irish artist's early drawings and paintings - work which he decided in the 1920s should not be seen again until three years after his death.

Young Conductors A competition for young conductors, organised by the Philharmonia Concert Society and held last month in the Monitor studio at Lime Grove. Judges: Otto Klemperer, Sir Adrian Boult, Carlo-Maria Giulini, Walter Legge and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

The Devils of Loudun John Whiting returns to Loudun in France to tell the story of the possession by devils in the 17th century of the Ursuline nuns of the town. His new play 'The Devils' (from which extracts are shown) has just opened at the Aldwych Theatre, London. Two Composers, Two Worlds A film about the contrasts in the life and work of two outstanding young composers: Peter Maxwell Davies, Dudley Moore.

Ronald Searle on Toulouse-Lautrec Kingsley Amis on Science Fiction

Emlyn Williams who is appearing at the Arts Theatre, London, in three plays: "Lunch Hour" by John Mortimer, "A Slight Ache" by Harold Pinter, and "The Form" by N.F. Simpson - under the title "Three". Tonight he discusses his roles in the plays with extracts from each of them. George Chapman in the Rhondda Life in the Welsh mining valleys as seen by the English painter George Chapman.

In 1960, Huw Wheldon visited Epidaurus and Athens to meet the Greek star of stage and screen Katina Paxinou. Having initially trained as an opera singer, she moved into acting, helping to re-establish the National Theatre of Greece in 1932. Due to the outbreak of World War Two, she found herself unable to return to Greece, and so emigrated to the US, soon securing the role of Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls - which won her an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. She returned to Greece in 1950 to resume her stage career, and alongside her husband, the actor and director Alexis Minotis, the pair achieved their dream of interpreting the Ancient Greek plays for a modern audience.

Book of Hours The seasonal calendar of the Duc de Berry. Zadkine at the Tate The famous Russian sculptor interviewed by Bernard Williams on the occasion of his retrospective exhibition opening at the Tate Gallery on January 5.

Five million people in England go dancing every week. A look at the strange and varied world of the dancers of England, from jive to ballroom, from folk dancing to flamenco.

The art of Sidney Nolan, australian painter.

Henry Moore, Sculptor, at home and in his studio.

Man in a Landscape The art of Sidney Nolan, Australian painter. Lillian Hellman talks to Huw Wheldon

The Eye of Cartier-Bresson The great French photographer at work. Music through the Looking Glass The fantasy world of Gerard Hoffnung.

Darius Milhaud the most prolific composer of today, filmed at his home in Paris.

A magazine of the arts. Tonight's edition includes: Shelagh Delaney's Salford The twenty-one year old author of "A Taste of Honey" and "The Lion in Love" looks at the town where she was brought up and where the action of both her plays takes place. Themes and Variations 'To compare a great copy with a great original is to attend a conversation between great artists' with Michael Ayrton. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

A Monitor film made in New York's Central Park, where every summer there is a season of free open-air Shakespeare performances with Joe Papp, the director and members of the New York Shakespeare Company in rehearsal.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Marcel Duchamp The legendary French artist whose paintings and theories have radically affected modern art - he might be said to have murdered art with irony and then sat down by the corpse to play chess. Interviewed by Richard Hamilton, and discussed also by Reyner Banham and Eduardo Paolozzi.

In America, as in this country, education is suffering from a shortage of text-books, classroom space, and, above all, of teachers. Sol Cornberg talks to Huw Wheldon about his current projects to tackle this problem in America by applying radio and television techniques to education. My mission is to create the tool which will permit the educator to multiply himself I am concerned with efficient means for the passing of information. Books are extremely inefficient Plato's thoughts have not been used up: he can be made available on a channel A Monitor production

Julian Bream A film profile with George Malcolm and the Julian Bream Consort. The Death of Patroclus Christopher Logue talks about his new adaptation of Book XVI of Homer's Iliad and reads scenes from it with Patrick Allen and Gary Watson.

The Preservation Man, with Professor Bruce Lacey, A.R.C.A. actor, theatrical property-maker, and collector of the past, from stuffed camels to Victorian families, from Victrola voices to rejected vacuum cleaners. In the studio: Michael Tippett on Music in the Theatre. His new opera "King Priam" has its world premiere at the Coventry Festival on May 29 Vincent Van Gogh Featuring a short film narrated by Cecil Day-Lewis. Using the text of Vincent Van Gogh's own letters, the programme explores the artist's life.

Commercial Art A sidelong glance at the world of advertising. Peter Ustinov in the studio.

What Makes a Tenor? Last week the National Federation of Music Societies held a Tenor Competition in London to find promising young singers. Bernard Keeffe of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden discusses the qualities of a great tenor and the reasons why this country has produced so few of them.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. A group of four young artists, who between them have won critical acclaim, exhibition prizes, and Arts Council awards, are among those who have turned for subject-matter to the world of pop singers, pin-ups, space-men, wrestling, and the Twist. Monitor cameras spent an ordinary Saturday with them, from dawn to midnight. The artists and their pictures: Peter Blake, Siriol, she-devil of naked madness Derek Boshier, I wonder what my Heroes think of the Space-race Pauline Boty, Goodbye, cruel world Peter Phillips, For Men Only starring MM and BB Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced and edited by Huw Wheldon.

Friso Ten Holt The Dutch painter whose first British exhibition opened at the New London Gallery last week talking with John Berger. 'Suddenly the painting begins to talk, to ask its own questions. And you have to respond to that question, otherwise you are never a painter'.

An enquiry into the music of our day from Jazz to Schoenberg. Musicians taking part include: Colin Davis with the London Symphony Orchestra (Leader, Hugh Maguire), Aaron Copland, Michael Tippett, Deryck Cooke, Hans Keller.

H.M.S. Pinafore Revisited Sir Tyrone Guthrie gives his views on Gilbert and Sullivan.

The Lonely Shore A fantasy. No one is left alive in England. All that remain are the fragments of our civilisation.

Paul Tortelier Portrait of a complete musician. Filmed in Paris at the Salle du Vieux Conservatoire, the Ecole Normale de Musique, and his studio. In rue Leon Cogniet with John Amis and L'Orchestre des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris, La Chorale des Jeunesses Musicales de France, The Tortelier Cello Orchestra.

With Henry Livings the author and scenes from the production of his new play now running at the Theatre Royal, Stratford.

Frank O'Connor, novelist, essayist, and short-story writer, revisits the provincial city where he lived for twenty-eight years and which provides the setting for many of his stories. 'I think all great literature begins in the provinces. If I hadn't left Cork, I'm quite certain I wouldn't have been the writer I am; but I think that if I hadn't been brought up in a city like this, I wouldn't have been a writer at all...'

Style in the Theatre and Portrait of an Experience Michel Saint-Denis now directing rehearsals of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard with the Royal Shakespeare Company talking with Peter Newington. Poems, prose, and photographs from Flanders and The Somme

Ninette de Valois D.B.E., creator of The Royal Ballet with film taken during rehearsals for next week's BBC Television production of her ballet The Rake's Progress.

The Private World of George Williams Michael Ayrton with Paintings, Sculpture, and Words on The Myth of Icarus ...Icarus, who flew too close to the sun, whose wings melted, and who fell to his death...

Gian-Carlo Menotti Composer of 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' and 'The Consul', filmed at his Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto in Italy. 'I never really finish a libretto and then set it to music, I let it burst into flame as I go along'. Max Ernst The first Surrealist painter, interviewed by Roland Penrose. 'The most magnificently haunted mind of today' (Andre Breton) 'If painting is the mirror of time it must be mad to have the true image of what the time is' (Max Ernst)

Throughout last week leading dramatists, directors, actors, and designers from all over the world have been taking part in the Edinburgh International Drama Conference at the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh. Tonight's programme is a shortened version of yesterday's final session on The Theatre of the Future Is theatre design about to be permanently revolutionised? Is theatre moving back to its origins in dance and music? Is improvisation going to replace even more the settled text? Among those expected to take part: Lionel Bart, Jack Gelber, Eugene Ionesco, Joan Littlewood, Erwin Tiscator, J. B. Priestley, Jerome Robbins. Session chairman, Peter Hall Conference chairman, Kenneth Tynan A Monitor presentation

Impressions of the city and the festival of Salzburg, the birthplace of Mozart. Those taking part include: Herbert von Karajan, Graziella Sciutti, Oskar Kokoschka, The Salzburg-Marionette-Theatre and Donald Grobe, Renate Holm, Ludwig Welter in scenes from Mozart's Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail recorded in the open-air theatre of the Residenz in Salzburg by courtesy of the Austrian Television Service A Monitor presentation

Introduced by David Attenborough. The practice of Yoga is older than Christianity. Until this century, its disciplines and purpose have been known to few people in the Western world. Yehudi Menuhin has practised Yoga for thirteen years. Tonight he talks about its value, and the effect it has had on him personally, with his Guru, or teacher, Shri. B. K. S. Iyengar. A Monitor presentation

Gospel singing has reached a new popularity in Europe with the highly successful tour of the Black Nativity company. In tonight's programme Alex Bradford talks to Kenneth Griffith about the origins of gospel singing in the early spirituals and jubilee songs; shows how it has drawn on the reels, the blues, and even Gershwin for its inspiration; and sings some of his own gospel songs with Princess Stewart, The Bradford Singers. A Monitor presentation

Written and directed by John Duncan and Melvyn Bragg. A review of jail birds and jail life through its records its literature and its songs. Introduced by Robert Robinson. with Donal Donnelly, Bryan Pringle, Brian Miller, Antony Selby, Sam Walters Music by Carter-Lewis and The Southerners A Monitor presentation

Throughout this week poets and actors are taking part in a special Poetry Festival at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square. Tonight's programme includes some of the highlights of the Festival with Alan Dobie, Christopher Logue, William Plomer and John Betjeman on Tennyson. Introduced by Robert Robinson. A Monitor presentation

Nikita Khrushchev, 1963: 'The artist's talent should be wholly dedicated to the struggle of the people for the building of Communism' Russian Revolutionary Leader, 1923: 'There is only the undying fidelity of the artist to his own internal Me' New painting, poems, music, and film material from the Soviet Union highlight the forty year conflict between art and the party line with contributions from Jack Lindsay, Ronald Hingley, Stanley Mitchell and Stephen Spender. A Monitor presentation

The London Symphony Orchestra in Japan Conducted by Pierre Monteux, Antal Dorati, Georg Solti Recently the L.S.O. completed the first tour of Japan ever made by a British orchestra, a gruelling schedule of fifteen concerts in five towns in three weeks. The Japanese described their visit as a triumph and a revelation. A Monitor presentation

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: The Sermon Specially written for Monitor by Peter Redgrove. [Starring] Michael Hordern and A Viking at the Chateau of Louis XVI A visit to the home of one of the new Europeans, Robert Jacobsen, Danish by birth, one-time tramp, collector of African art, and sculptor in iron.

New instruments... new sounds... A fabulous new world of music created and explored by the Lasry-Baschet Group from Paris, now making a return visit to England after their successful debut in Monitor last December. The Inventors: Francois and Bernard Baschet The Musicians: Jacques Lasry (crystal organ and echogrill), Yvonne Lasry (crystal organ), Jacques Chollet (bass tubes), Daniel Ouzounov (percussion) A Monitor presentation

Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Eugene O'Neill Playwright extraordinary, Nobel Prize-winner, and one of the greatest figures of the American theatre. Burgess Meredith and Jack MacGowran in a scene from Hughie one of O'Neill's last plays which ten years after his death is now receiving its first English-speaking production at the Duchess Theatre, London.

Tonight the Old Vic Company, the 'Home of Shakespeare' in London since 1914, gives its last performance in the Waterloo Road. Looking back on the story of a remarkable theatre in tonight's programme are: Robert Atkins, Michael Benthall, John Blatchley, Richard Burton, Michael Elliott, Edith Evans, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Tyrone Guthrie, John Neville, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Tommy Steele, Sybil Thorndike, Ninette de Valois.Introduced by Michael Flanders. With Outside Broadcast cameras at the Old Vic for the closing moments of Measure for Measure with The Old Vic Company In the presence of their President H.R.H. The Princess Marina Duchess of Kent A Monitor presentation

A fortnightly magazine of the arts Introduced by Huw Wheldon Tonight's programme includes: Watch the Birdie Low life and high fashion in the world of David Hurn one of the new generation of professional photographers. A film by Ken Russell.

A Eurovision relay direct from the Vienna Festival. Rudolf Serkin and The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Conducted by Karl Bohm) play Mozart's Piano Concerto in C major (K.467) Presented by the Austrian Television Service Introduced from the Monitor studio in London by Antony Hopkins who talks about Mozart and his piano concertos.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Georg Solti of Covent Garden An interview with the Musical Director of the Royal Opera House on the eve of its new production of The Marriage of Figaro.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Portrait of Margaret Evans A film by David Storey author of This Sporting Life. Margaret Evans is a painter; her first solo exhibition opened in London this month. She was born in Wigan, is married with four children, and lives in Hampstead.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Kenneth Williams Group Improvisation - A New Approach to Composition A discussion between Lukas Foss and Hans Keller with the Lukas Foss Ensemble of Los Angeles, California who play examples of their collective musical improvisations.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: A sight so touching in its majesty...? The New Face of London Those taking part include: Richard Llewellyn Davies Professor of Architecture, University College, London John Stillman, Architect

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: In the studio, J. B. Priestley

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: New Art from Africa Introduced by Frank McEwen, Director of the National Gallery of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. 'Traditional African art is dead; the tragedy of contemporary African art is that it can find no proper outlet..... It faces three destructive dangers: "airport art" for the tourist trade; Christian Mission School art; and European Art School art..... But I am also witness to what I believe to be a completely new African art'.

A film about Ben Shahn's America A Monitor feature made at the home of the painter Ben Shahn in Roosevelt, New Jersey, on the occasion of the unveiling of the Shahn memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: This Sporting Life A feature on the new film and the men who made it. The director, Lindsay Anderson The author, David Storey The producer, Karel Reisz

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Tortelier on Bach The French cellist comes to the Monitor studio to talk about Bach and play his music.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: A Sculpture in the Making David Wynne recently finished a 16 ft. 6 in. marble statue called 'The Breath of Life', now outside Hammersmith House in London. A camera recorded each stage in its construction and with the use of 'rushes' from this filming the sculptor describes the whole process.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Peter O'Toole talking with Kenneth Griffith about his approach to the part of T. E. Lawrence. Filmed on location in Spain during the final stages of the shooting of Lawrence of Arabia

For its 100th programme, a film biography written and directed by Ken Russell. Commentary by Huw Wheldon. Behind the public image of pomp and circumstance lies the extraordinary story of the piano-tuner's son from Worcester who, unknown and unsung until he was past forty, became the authentic voice of Edwardian England — "He has reached the hearts of the people" — yet remained through all his public triumphs and private pains an enigmatic, powerful, and mysterious figure.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Father and Son Jean Renoir the film director talks about his father the great French painter Auguste Renoir.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Poet in a Society A film study of Roy Fuller. Poet, novelist, and solicitor to one of the 'Big Five' Building Societies Poems should be defendable like prose; Like blood, unclotted; even like a nose Not half an inch too long

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Brendan Behan with Colin MacInnes

African Art A special report from the first International Congress of African Culture, held last month in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. A Master Class by Nadia Boulanger Today is the 75th birthday of Nadia Boulanger, who as conductor, teacher of composers, and trainer of musicians has been one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century music with David Wilde (piano), Jerzy Gajek (piano), The Ambrosian Singers and a class of students from the Royal College of Music.

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

Talking to four American graduates studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. This week: The Prodigal Timon of Athens is possibly Shakespeare's least known play but, as Mr. Dyson shows, it has many qualities which have been overlooked-not the least the tragedy of Timon himself, possessed by a curious mania for giving away his fortunes. A Monitor presentation

Talking to four American graduates studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. This week: Life Flows and Overflows Mr. Dyson compares love in Romeo and Juliet, where it is a way of life and triumph over death, to the love of Troilus and Cressida, where it begins by being a pleasure and ends as a disease. A Monitor presentation

Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare, talking to four American graduates studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. This week: The Dog in the Night "O damned Iago, O inhuman dog!" Mr. Dyson talks about the malignancy of lago in the tragedy of Othello, whom he sees as a very active dog in the night. A Monitor presentation

On Shakespeare talking to four American graduates studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. This week: Meeting the Children Tonight Dr. Dyson talks about two tragedies King Lear and Macbeth. King Lear's madness is brought on by the unnatural ingratitude of his children; Macbeth is troubled by a fear of something even more unnatural-the unborn. A Monitor presentation

Talking to four American graduates studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. This week: York and Lancaster Mr. Dyson talks about the struggle for the crown of England in Shakespeare's history plays-and also of that element of life which has no name and excites no headlines, but without which the King has no subjects-in other words, the moving life of the people. A Monitor presentation

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Alfred Hitchcock The Dotty World of James Lloyd James Lloyd taught himself to paint. His pictures of the animals and the countryside he knew as a child are done in the French pointilliste style, entirely in little dots.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Jean Tinguely sculptor "A big wheel in the Movement movement" Jean Tinguely, famous for his spectacular self-destroying machines, has made a huge sculpture for this year's Swiss National Exhibition at Lausanne. He talks about this and his earlier work to Richard Hamilton. See page 14

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. An evocation of the music and the times of the great Hungarian composer. "When I discovered Hungarian folk music, I realised that only from the totally old could the totally new be born." "As always I await the end of my exile." A film devised and directed by Ken Russell

Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: The Power of Myth Rupert Brooke The Marble of Man 'There is always a living face beneath the mask '-W. B. Yeats A new biography by Christopher Hassall reveals for the first time the presence of the man beneath the myth of the soldier-poet. Photograph by courtesy of Faber and Faber Minotaur and Oracle 'The true myth is not so much an invented story as a kind of flexible mould into which a story can be poured... It will adapt itself to the particular nature and circumstances of the artist who uses it...' Anthony Storr talks of the significance of myth and in particular of themes in the recent work of Michael Ayrton.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: The New Generation 1964 British painting seems suddenly to have taken on a new look-huge, vivid, and assured; and the painters themselves have some of the same characteristics. Tonight in an Outside Broadcast from the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, five men and a girl (all except one under thirty) face questions from an invited audience about what it is like to be a young artist in Britain 1964. "Anything that moves quickly interests me - fast music, fast sport, old films speeded-up, quick wit". "I leave my paintings untitled - intentionally. The thing about a title is it's too likely to conclude the meaning of the painting and to limit it to the meaning of the title". "In my paintings I want to project extraordinary things as forcibly as possible, but ultimately so that they seem ordinary. I am not out to shock".

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Engraver in Montparnasse A film study of S.W. Hayter, painter and engraver, founder of Atelier 17, and resident of Montparnasse.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Poet Laureate A film study of Lord Tennyson Tennyson came into the nineteenth century as a romantic and a revolutionary. He left it as Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate and the conscience of his age. For twenty years he was obsessed by his friendship for Arthur Hallam -alive and dead. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan

A fortnightly magazine of the arts Introduced by Huw Wheldon Tonight's programme includes: The Marks of Violence A study of violence in the arts introduced by Dr. Alex Comfort. Violence of subject matter and style seems to be a hallmark of much modern art. Is this such a new departure? And what purpose does this violence serve - indulgence, protest, or simply a mirror of the times? With John Arden, Reg Butler, Ann Jellicoe, V.S. Naipaul, David Storey

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Tell the Truth Richard Leacock film-maker at thirteen, cameraman to Robert Flaherty on Louisiana Story, and now one of America's outstanding directors of 'cinema verite' documentaries, talks about the techniques and intentions that shape his kind of filming.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. In tonight programme: 'An Aged Novelist': Waugh at 60 Evelyn Waugh talks to Elizabeth Jane Howard about his past and his future as a novelist, and about his reactions to growing old. Degas: A Dancing World Edgar Degas, the great French Impressionist painter, became in his later years so involved in the world of Paris Opera Ballet that he seemed to re-live in his art every movement, every gesture of the dancer's body. Margaret Dale looks at the world he created in the light of her own experience as dancer and choreographer.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Making the Bedmakers A film about the growth of a television play from the earliest script conference to the actual transmission with The author, David Turner, The director, Alan Bridges and the cast of The Bedmakers.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. The Lost Michelangelo Between 1492 and 1494 Michelangelo carved a wooden crucifix for the church of Santo Spirito in Florence. It 'disappeared' from the church 100 years later and since then has always been listed as one of his lost works. In September of last year it was rediscovered in the same church by a German art historian, Dr. Margaret Lisner. Michael Ayrton tells the story of its discovery and the dramatic circumstances of its making; and watches its restoration in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The Father by August Strindberg. Trevor Howard in scenes from the new production at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, and an interview with the director, Caspar Wrede.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Death of My Mother A film about D. H. Lawrence. Huw Wheldon talks to T. C. Rosenthal about television coverage of the arts: New Comment on Tuesday (Third Programme)

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: What the Dickens Johnny Dankworth has just completed a record album whose themes are based on characters from Charles Dickens. Tonight's film suggests some of the elements that have gone into the music and tell the story of the disc from composition to completion with Cleo Laine, Tubby Hayes, The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra and Cyril Luckham as Charles Dickens. and Nottingham's New Playhouse Nottingham's new civic theatre opened ten days ago. The building alone cost £370.000. Its directors believe passionately that provincial theatre is due for a revival. Their aim: a theatre with real roots in a compact community with Sir Tyrone Guthrie, John Neville, Frank Dunlop and The citizens of Nottingham.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Francisco Goya Court painter to the Kings of Spain, chronicler of the Horrors of War, cartoonist and satirist. A man who was said to have lived ten different lives. Theodore Crombie looks at the man behind the legend through his paintings and drawings. The Royal Academy Winter Exhibition 'Goya and his Times' opened on December 7

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Robert Robinson. Tonight's programme includes: Footmarks in Time: Thomas Hardy A personal view by C. Day Lewis. "Here is the ancient floor, Footworn and hollowed and thin, Here was the former door Where the dead feet walked in" This film was made in Hardy's own country of Wessex: C. Day Lewis, poet and lifelong admirer of Hardy, talks of the importance to him of Hardy's sense of time and his compassion for human beings.

Tonight's programme includes: A Sense of Order A film study of the work of Edward Bawden landscape painter, book illustrator, Royal Designer for Industry, war chronicler, and commercial artist, whose work ranges from the design of postage stamps to murals of the Canterbury Tales. I don't like the word craftsmanship-what you've got to be is a professional. Human beings are about the most ferocious animals there are. I suppose I laugh at them to protect myself. Liverpool Street Station? It's like another room in my house.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Degas: A Dancing World Edgar Degas, the great French Impressionist painter, became in his later years so involved in the world of the Paris Opera Ballet that he seemed to re-live in his art every movement, every gesture of the dancer's body. Margaret Dale looks at the world he created in the light of her own experience as dancer and choreographer. The Prince of Denmark The National Theatre opened last week with Shakespeare's Hamlet. Peter O'Toole talks about the part and the play with Ernest Milton a great Hamlet of the 1920s.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Film Man's Sketch Book The great Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein was also a remarkable artist. Herbert Marshall who studied under him for four years in Moscow, talks about Eisenstein the man and his working methods as revealed in the current exhibition of his drawings and film sketches at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Walking, Talking, Laughing Dance Three months ago Gillian Lynne late of the Royal Ballet, 'Cranks', and the London Palladium, formed a dance company to play on the 'Fringe' at Edinburgh, where their impact brought them immediate offers to appear in London's West End. Tonight's film follows the company from early rehearsals in a London church hall to the first taste of success in Edinburgh, and plans for a permanent future. and East Meets West A musical encounter between Julian Bream virtuoso of the guitar and Ali Akbar Khan, virtuoso of the sarod, who bring European and Indian music together in a session of improvisation. (Gillian Lynne and her Dance Company are presenting 'Collages' at the Savoy Theatre, London)

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 mysteries of modern European sculpture. Berger solves the mystery in terms of Giacometti's theories of vision. The Middle-class Magician The art critic, George Melly went to Brussels and made a film about the Belgian surrealist. Rene Magritte whose pictures are conundrums about the way the world looks. Cheese! Or what really did happen in Andy Warhol's Studio Monitor comes to an end with a surprise of its own making.

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, the two-gun midget from Laval; his struggles, imprisonment for fraud, tragic love affair, and mysterious death. With the Yorkshire primitive painter James Lloyd in the role of Rousseau.

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 photo-journalism. The Royal College of Physicians Continuing the Monitor series on modern architecture in Britain. John Donat talks with the architect Denys Lasdun whose firm built the dramatic new Royal College of Physicians premises in Regent's Park. Sir Robert Platt, a past president of the Royal College, discusses ways in which Lasdun's new building has affected the whole feeling of an ancient professional institution.

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 particular early experiments in capturing movement. Naum Gabo, the famous Russian pioneer of Constructivist sculpture, filmed at his home in Connecticut, and Kenneth Snelson, a young American living on Long Island and working in a similar field.

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 produced and directed by Ken Russell, author of the prize-winning Monitor film on Elgar.

A film on James Joyce Written by Anthony Burgess

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 French poet Baudelaire.

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 and dyeworks and it is out of this background of northern industrialism that he has written plays like Big Soft Nellie and Eh? Leicester Tower James Stirling and James Gowan, two British architects, built the new Department of Engineering at Leicester University. They discuss with Professor Parkes, Head of the Department, and John Donat how the building and Leicester's first tower came into being. Western Native Township Julian Beinart, a South African expert in town planning, shows the startling decorations on the walls of the houses in the township and talks about what this 'writing on the wall' means to the Africans who live there.

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. Commentary by Huw Wheldon. A Monitor presentation.

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.

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 nearly ten years ago, Samuel Beckett has become a well-established figure in the English theatre. The latest production of Waiting for Godot at the Royal Court Theatre, London, has been received as a classic. This evening's programme is an experiment in expressing on television some of Mr. Beckett's central themes and ideas as they occur not only in his plays but in his novels.

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 artist Jasper Johns. Richard Brooks A film portrait of the director Richard Brooks as he makes his film of Conrad's Lord Jim. A New Place Designed by the architects Alison and Peter Smithson, the new Economist building in St. James's Street is an exciting addition to the London scene. It is discussed by the architects, the client, and John Donat.

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 well as Seven Types of Ambiguity, while still studying at Cambridge in the 1920s. Since then he has taught widely in China and Japan. In tonight's film he talks about some of his poems and their meaning to him. and Michael Podro Art as detective story-a display of the methods of Erwin Panofsky.

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 story-a display of the methods of Erwin Panofsky.

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 Levi-Strauss.

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 being remote, because people on the whole don't drop in on you". and Philip Johnson, New York architect filmed in and around New York. "If you don't have an art collection you don't easily come to me for a house".

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 from the modern world.

The opening programme in the new series. Introduced by Jonathan Miller.