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Monitor

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BBC flagship arts programme of the 1950s and 1960s.

logo for Monitor - Henry Moore at Home
Monitor - Henry Moore at Home

Sculptor Henry Moore, at home and in his studio, talks to Huw Wheldon about his work, in the context of a 1960 exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery.

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logo for Monitor - Hitchcock and Wheldon
Monitor - Hitchcock and Wheldon

Huw Wheldon's interview with legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, from 1965.

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logo for Monitor - Larkin and Betjeman - Down Cemetery Road
Monitor - Larkin and Betjeman - Down Cemetery Road

Philip Larkin talks to John Betjeman in 1964 about his life, his poetry and the city of Hull where he lived and worked as university librarian.

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logo for Monitor - Orson Welles
Monitor - Orson Welles

Orson Welles talks to Huw Wheldon about his work as actor, director and filmmaker, with clips from his films, Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons.

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logo for Monitor - Pop Goes the Easel
Monitor - Pop Goes the Easel

Ken Russell's 1962 film on the Young British Artists of the day pioneering the Pop Art movement features four artists - Peter Blake, Peter Phillips, Derek Boshier and Pauline Boty.

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logo for Monitor - Shelagh Delaney's Salford
Monitor - Shelagh Delaney's Salford

Shelagh Delaney, the author of A Taste of Honey, looks at Salford, where she grew up and where the action of her plays takes place.

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