John Wyver writes: On Monday 26 July 1937 the television service from Alexandra Palace started a three-week shutdown. There had been broadcasts each afternoon and evening (except Sundays) since 2 November, with test transmissions and programmes for Radiolympia before then, more
John Wyver writes: Under the headline 'Film workers & television: wide effect on entertainment', the Daily Telegraph on 25 July 1939 carried a fascinating report of a speech made the previous day by Robert Finnigan as the presidential; address to more
John Wyver writes: The evening schedule of Sunday 24 July 1938 was occupied by Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (billed under its full name) given in modern dress by a strong company under the direction of the invariably innovative more
John Wyver writes: The line-up for the Baird Television transmission at 11am on the morning of Wednesday 23 July 1930 featured, as usual, a trio of entertainers. Scottish (although billed as 'Scotch') music hall comedian Tommy Lorne was up more
John Wyver writes: 'Crisis in television' was, as you can see, the The Era's timeless headline on its weekly edition datelined Thursday 22 July 1937. Nine months after the start of the BBC's 'high definition' service from Alexandra Palace, the more
John Wyver writes: Wednesday 21 July 1937 fell in the middle of the last week when the Radio Times Television Supplement was published in the London edition of the listings magazine. At the centre of three pages of detailed more
John Wyver writes: On the afternoon of 20 July 1937 the BBC television service mounted a new presentation of Luigi Pirandello's oblique modernist dialogue The Man with the Flower in his Mouth. Just over seven years before, more
John Wyver writes: More or less from the start of the Alexandra Palace operation viewers wanted director of television Gerald Cock to schedule a regular slot for youngsters. Cock pleaded shortage of resources and airtime, but eventually offered up a more
John Wyver writes: On the evening of Tuesday 18 July 1939 Irish playwright and producer Denis Johnston presented The Parnell Commission (above), a reconstruction of the forgery investigation of 1888-89. Johnston had made this as a radio feature some more
John Wyver writes: The evening of Monday 17 July 1939 saw one of the BBC's two mobile control rooms back at the Victoria Palace Theatre for a reprise OB of the musical Me and My Girl, first broadcast on 1 more