Huw Wheldon was founding editor and presenter of Monitor, the BBC's first television arts magazine. In this year's lecture to the Royal Television Society, music and arts broadcaster Humphrey Burton , who worked closely with him in the late 50s and early 60s, gives a first-hand account of the achievements of Monitorand suggests that today's programme-makers have much to learn from those pioneering days. Among 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.
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