Huw Wheldon is associated with: Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
Marking Play for Today's 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies. Featuring a rich and surprising range of archive extracts and original interviews with many ...
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A documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, responsible for creating some of the most memorable television and radio music in British popular culture, including "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and Doctor Who (1963). ...
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Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli. ...
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A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in his country's folklore. ...
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An astonishing documentary of the life of classical composer Sir Edward Elgar. This partly dramatised account is remarkable for its sensitive portrayal of the rise of a young musician from an underprivileged background to international fame. ...
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The Preservation Man is about useless objects but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's collection of random junk that is incorporated into his art with their original function is irrelevant. Sensibly, Russell and commentator Huw Wheldon keep anal ...
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Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell's first full-length documentary for the BBC's arts series Monitor. It focused on 4 British Pop Artists - Peter Blake, Peter Philips, Pauline Boty and Derek Boshier. ...
Watch NowMrs Wilhelmina Sterling shows her vast collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings, pottery and other artefacts at her home in Battersea. ...
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Ken Russell directed a short document of German actress (and widow of famed composer Kurt Weill) Lotte Lenya performing many of Weill's best known compositions for BBC TV series "Monitor. ...
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Subtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', this is the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics. ...
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A study of Antoni Gaudí's architecture (especially the Church of the Holy Trinity in Barcelona), his sources of inspiration and his influence on Picasso. ...
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Philip Larkin talks to John Betjeman about his life, his poetry and the city of Hull where he lived and worked as university librarian. ...
Watch NowPop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell's first full-length documentary for the BBC's arts series Monitor. It focused on 4 British Pop Artists - Peter Blake, Peter Philips, Pauline Boty and Derek Boshier. ...
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One of the most conceptually original of all the films that Ken Russell made for Monitor, this imagines an expedition of alien archaeologists (represented only by the soundtrack commentary) examining various artefacts strewn along a stretch of Britain's co ...
Watch NowSubtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', this is the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics. ...
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Portrait of Spike Milligan, then part of The Goon Show examining his views on comedy, ...
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An illustration of various mechanical instruments, from the musical-box to 1950s electronica. ...
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