John Wyver writes: The evening of Wednesday 11 September 1935 saw the final 30-line broadcast from the BBC studio in Portland Place. There had been regular BBC transmissions since August 1932, but now following the Selsdon Report's recommendation that a more
John Wyver writes: The evening schedule on Wednesday 10 September 1937 featured a 9-minute talk by Anthony Bertram titled What is Good Design? The producer was Mary Adams, and the PasB detailed that the broadcast was 'illustrated by examples of more
John Wyver writes: As promised yesterday, this is the fascinating text of Grace Wyndham Goldie's LIstener column, 'The Drama of Television', dated 9 September 1936, with her first thoughts about the new medium. As the weekly's radio drama critic, more
John Wyver writes: Today and tomorrow I want to highlight two early columns about television by the doyenne of pre-war critics, Grace Wyndham Goldie. And I want to do so by showcasing them in, as it were, reverse order, with more
John Wyver writes: The Wednesday evening of 7 September 1938 featured a 18-minute talk by portraitist and muralist Edward Halliday titled Masterpieces on Your Walls. Using sixteen examples, he discussed 'the advantages of modern colour reproductions which bring a more
John Wyver writes: Wednesday 6 September 1933 saw the second performance on the 30-line service of Rokoko, a musical comedy programme selected from operettas by Leo Fall, Millocker and Emmerich Kalman. Henrik Ege contributed original dialogue and there were additional more
John Wyver writes: One last Radiolympia post, this time from the final day of the 1936 edition, Saturday 5 September. On this day producer Cecil Lewis, a radio pioneer and soon to be tempted to Hollywood to adapt his more
John Wyver writes: Perhaps this is a bit of a stretch but I want an excuse to return to 1938's Radiolympia which closed 'yesterday'. So I'm speculating that Sunday 4 September would have been the day when a crew dismantled more
John Wyver writes: I have one further Radiolympia post to come tomorrow, but today (with apologies for the lateness and brevity of the post) marks the last day of the 1938 edition. This closed on the evening of Saturday 3 more
John Wyver writes: Tucked into an upbeat, celebratory schedule from Radiolympia in the early evening of Friday 2 September 1938 was a television reminder of the 'war-mindedness' of these days running up to the Munich crisis. In a five-minute slot more