John Wyver writes: on the afternoon of this day in 1931, Saturday 28 November, the National Programme of the BBC's Sound service broadcast a light music recital in a studio at Savoy Hill given by the Gershom Parkington Quintet and more
John Wyver writes: OTD in early British television, on 27 November 1938, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company made its television debut with its production of The Wooing of Anne Hathaway. The tradition of a major drama production each Sunday evening more
John Wyver writes: A blog post - many months after the last one, and with much to catch up on. I have been prompted to return, at least temporarily, by a kind suggestion from Lawrence Napper on Facebook. Over the more
John Wyver writes: welcome to the fifth Postcard (with two more scheduled) from my and my wife Clare Paterson's recent mid-west road trip, in this case embracing our visits, for two nights in each city, to Indianapolis and St Louis. more
John Wyver writes: with apologies for the hiatus in delivering these, welcome to the fourth Postcard from the American road trip that my wife Clare Paterson and I recently took across the mid-west. The first three Postcards are here, more
John Wyver writes: We are on the road! Having left Chicago, we drove to Fort Wayne and Sidney, Ohio (day one), on to Columbus, Ohio (day two) and then to Columbus, Indiana (day three). Not that it’s been entirely great, more
John Wyver writes: A second missive from the mid-West, following on from Postcard from Chicago, part one. And let me begin with a tale of two campuses (campi?). One morning this past I explored the low-level lay-out of the more
John Wyver writes: Although posts of this kind are not directly related to the company's operations, I occasionally scratch out accounts of my travels and other doings. In this case, my wife Clare and I are now on a long-planned more
John Wyver writes: welcome to this week's selection of stuff that I've enjoyed and been enriched by over the past week. • Frank Stella went from Bauhaus to fun house: such a great appraisal by Deborah Solomon for The New more
John Wyver writes: Apologies for missing last week - somehow the keynote for the University of Westminster conference Designs on TV, together with other stuff, just gobbled up the days. But here's this week's selection of twelve articles and audio more