17th February 2024
John Wyver writes: I'm sorry, but personal stuff and a professional deadline mean I just have not had the time to compile this Sunday's recommendations. Apologies. I hope normal service will be resumed next week. In the meantime, here's a
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11th February 2024
John Wyver writes: another dozen articles and elements of audio, mostly about digital stuff and cinema, that I have found intriguing, informative and challenging over the past week.
• Time Canvases - Morton Feldman and Abstract Expressionism: composer Samuel Andreyev
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4th February 2024
John Wyver writes: welcome to the usual mix of articles and audio that captured my attention this past week.
• Bite-sized Godard - read along with the French New Wave auteur: for MUBI Notebook, Jonathan Rosenbaum reviews a new volume
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27th January 2024
John Wyver writes: as usual, I'm pleased to share twelve of the articles and audio contributions that engaged and challenged and intrigued me during the past seven days.
• How the government captured the BBC: this is excellent from Alan
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21st January 2024
John Wyver writes: for your enjoyment and edification, herewith this week's selection of articles and audio that have engaged and challenged and enriched me over the past week.
• The fatal flaw in Mr Bates vs The Post Office: I
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14th January 2024
John Wyver writes: Here's a remarkable trace of my, and of Illuminations' and Channel 4's pasts - a programme break from 14 January 1984 with a continuity announcement and slide trailing the first documentary I produced, Six Into One: The
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14th January 2024
John Wyver writes: the regular (if this week, a little late) numerically specific number of recommendations of articles and other stuff that have engaged and amused and challenged me over the past week. For some reason there are a
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13th January 2024
John Wyver writes: Extraordinarily, this afternoon as a little tribute to Wider Television Access, a group I co-founded in 1980, BFI Southbank is screening a 1963 episode of ITC's series The Saint, Teresa with Roger Moore and The Avengers:
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6th January 2024
John Wyver writes: something like normal service is resumed this week with a numerically specific number of recommendations of articles and other stuff that I have been engaged and amused and challenged by over the past week.
• The secret
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31st December 2023
John Wyver writes: Two years ago I compiled a list of stuff - books, films, journalism, television, exhibitions, online elements - that I had enjoyed, appreciated, learned from and generally been cheered by over the previous twelve months. Herewith,
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