Monitor Season 7, Episode 25: Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: The Prodigal

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Walking, Talking, Laughing Dance

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)

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Film Man's Sketch Book

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.

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The Prince of Denmark

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.

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A Sense of Order

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.

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Footmarks in Time: Thomas Hardy

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.

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Francisco Goya

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

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Episode 7

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.

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Death of My Mother

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)

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The Lost Michelangelo

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.

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Making the Bedmakers

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.

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'An Aged Novelist': Waugh at 60

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.

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Episode 12

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.

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The Marks of Violence

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

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Poet Laureate

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

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Engraver in Montparnasse

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.

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The New Generation 1964

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".

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The Power of Myth

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.

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Bela Bartok

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

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Jean Tinguely sculptor

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

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Alfred Hitchcock

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.

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Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: York and Lancaster

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

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Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Meeting the Children

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

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Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: The Dog in the Night

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

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Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Life Flows and Overflows

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

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Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: The Prodigal

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

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Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Abdication and Aggression

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