John Wyver writes: The later part of the evening of Monday 26 September 1938 was occupied by a feature programme titled Lambeth Walks Out. This was a kind of history of of the dance known as the 'Lambeth Walk', presented more
John Wyver writes: The evening of Sunday 25 September was mostly taken over by the 2 hour-plus reprise of Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV, originally produced in March by the innovative producer Dallas Bower. As before, Ernest Milton took the title more
John Wyver writes: Monday 24 September 1928 was the second day of a week of demonstration transmissions by John Logie Baird's company for the National Radio Exhibition at Olympia. Radiolympia attendees could step out on a dance floor to tunes more
John Wyver writes: Over the weekend of Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September 1938, the BBC's mobile unit made a return visit to Pinewood film studios for three OB broadcasts. Pinewood was the location for the first and most successful more
John Wyver writes: With James Jordan and Eleni Liarou, I am one of the organisers of this symposium next March, and I am pleased to share the details here. Please note that we have had to re-schedule the date, and more
John Wyver writes: From time to time it's worth checking in on the guest list for the magazine series Picture Page, in this case on the evening of Thursday 22 September 1938. The magazine show comprising brief interviews by Leslie more
John Wyver writes: It's still the weekend, and I still have many pages of my proofs to work on, so here are further links to previous blog posts that I especially enjoyed writing. OTD in early British television: 10 August more
John Wyver writes: It's the weekend and I'm deep in the page proofs for Magic Rays of Light, and so here are three previous posts from this series for you to explore. Each one reflects an aspect of the modernist more
John Wyver writes: Today, a short original post about an outside broadcast from Euston station on Monday 19 September 1938, along with links to two earlier columns about railway-related broadcasts. The OB was a half-hour mid-morning presentation with Leslie Mitchell to more
John Wyver writes: The ambition of producer Eustace Robb's 30-line television broadcasts is again witnessed by the 50-minute broadcast in the late evening of Tuesday 18 September 1934. In what was in fact a reprise of a broadcast from July, more