John Wyver writes: On Thursday 23rd March 1939 the 227th edition of the magazine series Picture Page was transmitted in the afternoon and, following the usual pattern, the 228th was shown that evening. In the afternoon, the show ran for more
John Wyver writes: The afternoon of Tuesday 22 March 1938 was graced with the first performance of Dallas Bower's 75-minute production of Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. As Wikipedia says, the drama is 'a study on madness with comic and more
John Wyver writes: Starting at 2.55pm on Tuesday 21 March 1939, the television service carried a 16-minute outside broadcast from Victoria Station where the King and Queen greeted His Excellency the President of the French Republic and Madame Lebrun. Michael more
John Wyver writes: On the afternoon of Saturday 20 March 1937, following a display of model aircraft, producer Dallas Bower oversaw the first transmission of the 35-minute Pasquinade, claimed as the first original revue for the new medium. Conceived in more
John Wyver writes: The afternoon of Friday 19 March 1937 saw the Television's first Grand National, although not with live pictures from Aintree. Instead, as was the case with other sports events during the pre-war years, and especially before the more
John Wyver writes: For whatever reason, it seems to be the case that 18 March was a somewhat unremarkable date for early television in each of the years between 1928 and 1939. Nothing jumped out at me as the subject more
John Wyver writes: After a concert from Jack Hylton and his band on the evening of Friday 17 March 1939, Alexandra Palace broadcast Animals, Anatomy, Artists, a talk by John Skeaping on 'the three main types of animal art - more
John Wyver writes: The afternoon of Wednesday 16 March 1938 saw a reprise of Eric Crozier's production (above), first presented the previous September, of W.B. Yeats's supernatural drama The Words Upon the Window Pane. The cast was led by Jean more
John Wyver writes: On the evening of Wednesday 15 March 1933, in a programme that alkso featured popular singer Maisie Seneshall and Danish musical comedy star Eric Bertner, the celebrated dancer Adeline Genée (above, 36 years before, dancing La Camargo) more
John Wyver writes: Cabaret: Sound and Vision was the rather clunky title of a 40-minute variety bill on the evening of Monday 14th March. In many ways it was standard AP fare, with compère Russell Swann introducing a line-up of more