John Wyver writes (just after midday): On the morning of Friday 1 September 1939, AP broadcast an edition of Come and Be Televised from Radiolympia. Among Elizabeth Cowell's guests were Mr J. McIntyre giving 'his impressions of English life as more
John Wyver writes: The day before closedown, Thursday 31 August, saw the publication of a Listener column by Grace Wyndham Goldie responding in part to a broadcast by Paul Robeson. A week and a day earlier the great singer had more
John Wyver writes: We are back at Radiolympia today, for the sixth day of the 1938 edition, on Tuesday 30 August. Come and Be Televised played in the morning, just after a broadcast from the fair by Mr Middleton about more
John Wyver writes: Saturday 29 August 1936 was the fourth day of test transmissions from Alexandra Palace arranged especially for reception at the Radiolympia trade fair in west London. The opening of the BBC's 'high definition' service was over two more
John Wyver writes: On the evening of Monday 28 August 1939, just five days before television's closedown, producer John Pudney's radio feature Modern Pastoral, about the coming of electricity to the Essex hamlet of Duton Hill, went out on the more
John Wyver writes: The evening of Sunday 27 August 1939 saw the first performance of Michael Barry's production (on which he was assisted by Eric Crozier) of the comedy A Cup of Happiness by Eden Philpotts (above). Leon M. more
John Wyver writes: Saturday 26 August 1939, and war is just a week and a day away. The National Radio Show of Radiolympia is in full swing, and on this fourth day Come and Be Televised, Picture Page and a more
John Wyver writes: Having noted the first activity in at Alexandra Palace in 1936 yesterday, today we make a jump on a year on to an article that marked what was claimed as television's 'first birthday'. Never mind that regular more
The 250th 'OTD in early British television' post. John Wyver writes: The Scotsman was among the newspapers that on the morning of Monday 24 August 1936 carried news of the previous day's press preview of the BBC's television operations at Alexandra more
John Wyver writes: Late August means it's time for the annual trade show Radiolympia. Manufacturers and consumers gathered for a week or so in west London to look at the latest radio and television receivers and to be entertained by more