John Wyver writes: Noting 'E.H.R.'s brief review in The Observer on Sunday 16 July 1939 of East End, a programme that was broadcast four days before, allows me both to preserve OTD-ness today while at the same time writing about more
John Wyver writes: By Friday 15 July 1938 the BBC's mobile control unit was well-established at Roehampton Club providing the third of four days' OBs from the private sports facility in south London. The range of summer leisure activities more
John Wyver writes: Ninety-five years ago today, for 26 minutes from 3.30pm on the afternoon of Monday 14 July 1930, The Man with the Flower in his Mouth by Luigi Pirandello was broadcast. This is unquestionably a significant more
John Wyver writes: Across nearly three hours on the evening of Thursday 13 July 1939 an outside broadcast of the operetta The Desert Song was transmitted from the Garrick Theatre in London's West End. By this point the BBC's mobile more
John Wyver writes: Another first - the opening 10-minute episode on the evening of Tuesday 12 July 1938 of television's earliest serial "soap", written by venerable actor Louis Goodrich and titled Ann and Harold. The main characters are Ann Teviot, more
John Wyver writes: We have already seen how in May 1938 television's love affair with Jane Austen began with a compacted adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Less than two months later, the new medium first entered the world of more
John Wyver writes: Under producer Eustace Robb, the BBC's 30-line Television service mounted increasingly elaborate productions of classic ballets. Among his most enthusiastic collaborators was former Diaghilev star Lydia Sokolova, who first adapted the one-act Cléopâtre which Michel more
John Wyver writes: Responding to the full-length drama given on the evening of Sunday 9 July 1939, Grace Wyndham Goldie in her column for The Listener did not hide her judgement from her readers:
There were half-a-dozen curious things aboutmore
John Wyver writes: In its first month of operation the Television service from Alexandra Palace presented extracts from a theatre production of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. But the new medium's real engagement with the major playwrights of the more
John Wyver writes: 'Television seen 200 miles away' ran the heading of a front-page story in The Era on Thursday 7 July 1938, along with the sub-heard, 'Paris received on the South Downs'. And the report continued,
Startling possibilities aremore