Monitor · SEASON 7
The Power of Myth
Episode 17 · 1964-05-10
- Documentary
Episode overview
Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: The Power of Myth Rupert Brooke The Marble of Man 'There is always a living face beneath the mask '-W. B. Yeats A new biography by Christopher Hassall reveals for the first time the presence of the man beneath the myth of the soldier-poet. Photograph by courtesy of Faber and Faber Minotaur and Oracle 'The true myth is not so much an invented story as a kind of flexible mould into which a story can be poured... It will adapt itself to the particular nature and circumstances of the artist who uses it...' Anthony Storr talks of the significance of myth and in particular of themes in the recent work of Michael Ayrton.
Season 7 episodes
1. Walking, Talking, Laughing Dance1963-09-29
2. Film Man's Sketch Book1963-10-13
3. The Prince of Denmark1963-10-27
4. A Sense of Order1963-11-10
5. Footmarks in Time: Thomas Hardy1963-11-24
6. Francisco Goya1963-12-08
7. Episode 71963-12-22
8. Death of My Mother1964-01-05
9. The Lost Michelangelo1964-01-19
10. Making the Bedmakers1964-02-02
11. 'An Aged Novelist': Waugh at 601964-02-16
12. Episode 121964-03-01
13. The Marks of Violence1964-03-15
14. Poet Laureate1964-03-29
15. Engraver in Montparnasse1964-04-12
16. The New Generation 19641964-04-26
17. The Power of Myth1964-05-10
18. Bela Bartok1964-05-24
19. Jean Tinguely sculptor1964-06-21
20. Alfred Hitchcock1964-07-05
21. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: York and Lancaster1964-08-30
22. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Meeting the Children1964-09-06
23. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: The Dog in the Night1964-09-13
24. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Life Flows and Overflows1964-09-20
25. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: The Prodigal1964-09-27
26. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Abdication and Aggression1964-10-04
