Monitor

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

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.

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 …

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: 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 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 s…

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 portr…

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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.

A film on James Joyce Written by Anthony Burgess

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 priz…

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 movem…

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 t…

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, impriso…

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 solv…