Catch up TV

Episode 08 March 2026

Huw Wheldon was founding editor and presenter of Monitor, the BBC's first television arts magazine. In a lecture to the Royal Television Society, first broadcast in 1991, music and arts broadcaster Humphrey Burton, who worked closely with Wheldon in the late 50s and early 60s, gives a first-hand account of the achievements of Monitor.\n\nAmong the examples used by Burton are films commissioned by Wheldon from two young directors who went on to greater things, Ken Russell and John Schlesinger, and studio interviews with Orson Welles and Ninette de Valois.

Source: BBC 4