Monitor Season 8 Episodes

Episode 1

Episode #8.1

Episode 2

Royal Shakespeare Company/Joe Tilson

Episode 3

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.

Episode 4

A Christmas Stocking: Santa Claus/Father Christmas

Episode 5

A Musician's Mind

Episode 6

Empson Apart/Michael Podro

Episode 7

What the Pundits Say/Richard Brooks/A New Place

Episode 8

Beginning to End

Episode 9

Matters of Time: Robert Lowell/Time Is

Episode 10

JB: A Portrait of Sir John Barbirolli

Episode 11

Choice of Surroundings: Dobcross/Leicester Tower/Western Native Township

Episode 12

People in Rather Odd Circumstances/Poet As Art Critic

Episode 13

Silence, Exile, and Cunning

Episode 14

Norman Mailer

Episode 15

Monitor Special: The Debussy Film

82 mins

An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.

Episode 16

The Frozen Frame: Frozen Events/The Camera and the Canvas

Episode 17

Private Eye & Public Place

Episode 18

Always on Sunday

45 mins

Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.

Episode 19

Art and Delusion: Why So Thin/The Middle-Class Magician/Cheese, or What Really Did Happen in Andy Warhol's Studio

46 mins