John Wyver writes: After a lengthy hiatus and posts concerned with other matters, we need to return our attention to the pre-war television schedules. So let's look back 88 years to Thursday 25 November 1937 when the high definition service more
John Wyver writes: Exciting news just released by the British Film Institute: throughout January BFI Southbank has a season of documentaries and early feature films linked to the publication of my monograph Magic Rays of Light: The Early more
John Wyver writes: Welcome to a selection of writing on television, film, visual art, the politics of images, dance and poems that I found stimulating over the past week. The image above is a detail of Wayne Thiebaud's painting 'Cup more
John Wyver writes: welcome to the end of an extraordinary week, which is reflected somewhat in today's selection of stuff that has engaged me in the past seven days; but there are also recommendations about television, film, literature and history more
John Wyver writes: Some six weeks ago I posted a Call for Proposals for a one-day symposium about the films of the important documentary maker Robert Vas (above). My colleagues James Jordan and Eleni Liarou and I have received more
John Wyver writes: As part of the overall re-boot of the blog, let's see together whether it is interesting once again to share a dozen recommendations from my reading (mostly) and viewing (minimally) this past week. For new readers, this more
John Wyver writes: Three weeks ago the BBC released a report titled Our BBC, Our Future (link to the report's home page) which collated responses to an online questionnaire earlier in the year. 'We asked you to tell us more
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with thanks to Ian Greaves for more
John Wyver writes: After yesterday's post about Television Comes to London, let's stay in the first week of the official high definition television from Alexandra Palace, and turn our attention to the afternoon of Friday 6 November 1936. This more
John Wyver writes: The high definition television service from Alexandra Palace was just three days old on Bonfire Night 1936. That afternoon, after a performance under the name of the Mercury Ballet of Marie Rambert's dance company, the film documentary more