Monitor Season 3, Episode 4: William Golding

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TH White in Alderney

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

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Sean O'Casey

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

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Episode 3

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

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William Golding

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.

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Christopher Isherwood

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.

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Sir Thomas Beecham on Delius

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

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Episode 7

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

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Diego Rivera

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

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Michel St. Denis

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

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Rod Steiger

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.

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Lawrence Durrell

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

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Journey into a Lost World

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.

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Orson Welles

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

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Profile of a Quartet

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

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Cranks at Work

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

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Young Artista

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?

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Tyrone Guthrie in the studio

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

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The Caretaker

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

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Episode 19

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.

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Episode 20

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.

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Monitor Summer Film Festival

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

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Monitor Summer Film Festival

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.

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Monitor Summer Film Festival

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.

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Monitor Summer Film Festival

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.

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Monitor Summer Film Festival

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.

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Monitor Summer Film Festival

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.