Monitor: Summer Film Season

Overview

A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years. In this edition: Shelagh Delaney's Salford The twenty-two-year-old author of 'A Taste of Honey' and 'The Lion in Love' looks at the town where she was brought up, and where the action of both her plays takes place. '... the brilliant meeting with Shelagh Delaney and the vision through her lucid eyes of the restless, slate-grey, black-brick spirit of Salford.....' (Punch) and Profile of a Quartet A film about the life and work of a string quartet with The Allegri Quartet. '... this elaborate, witty and human film profile....' (New Statesman) * Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.