John Wyver writes: I have now been contributing 'On this day in early British television' posts for more than a year now. Which means that in addition to amassing a total of 282 original entries, I am now encountering the more
John Wyver writes: This coming Sunday, as part of BFI Southbank's Muse of Fire: Richard Burton season, which kicked off last night, I am introducing a rare screening of John Osborne's television play A Subject of Scandal and more
John Wyver writes: Just a reminder that BFI Members' booking for the BFI Southbank Magic Rays of Light season opens today at midday. Booking for everyone else opens on Thursday at the same time. You can book for the two more
John Wyver writes: Another collection of articles and a video that have engaged me this week, embracing politics and the visual arts, melodrama, children's television, PTA and Pynchon, neolithic monuments and a modernist lido, building Jerusalem in post-war Britain, the more
John Wyver writes: Between an appearance by the ventriloquist D'Anselmi and a short programme called The Accompanist Speaks, with pianist Ivor Newton, television's main offering on the evening of Monday 28 November 1938 was the second edition (above) of the more
John Wyver writes: As noted earlier in the week, I have curated a screening season at BFI Southbank in January to tie in with the publication by Bloomsbury and the BFI of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of more
John Wyver writes: 'What's language, mummy?' a small boy asks actor Marina Vlady (above,. top) playing a waking Juliette Jeanson in Jean-Luc Godard's Wild Palms, the world premiere of which was held at London's ICA last night. More accurately, more
John Wyver writes: After a lengthy hiatus and posts concerned with other matters, we need to return our attention to the pre-war television schedules. So let's look back 88 years to Thursday 25 November 1937 when the high definition service more
John Wyver writes: Exciting news just released by the British Film Institute: throughout January BFI Southbank has a season of documentaries and early feature films linked to the publication of my monograph Magic Rays of Light: The Early more
John Wyver writes: Welcome to a selection of writing on television, film, visual art, the politics of images, dance and poems that I found stimulating over the past week. The image above is a detail of Wayne Thiebaud's painting 'Cup more