Whither Europe (on TV)?

4th March 2019

John Wyver writes:Tomorrow night (less than four weeks from the scheduled B-Day), at 18.15 on Tuesday 7, I'm chairing a panel at BFI Southbank (tickets here, although there are not many left) with actor Cherie Lunghi (who is more

Dancing with the camera

3rd March 2019

John Wyver writes:To the Barbican for Tesseract, a dance piece in two halves that played from Thursday to Saturday on the main stage. It's the creation of filmmaker Charles Atlas and dancer-choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, all three more

Television links

2nd March 2019

Following yesterday's list of recent links to interesting articles about photography, here's another pull-together, this time of pointers to pieces about the medium formerly known as television. The wonderful image of the early television studio at Alexandra Palace was more

Photography links

1st March 2019

Until quite recently I posted a list of links each Sunday of stuff that over the previous week I had found interesting or intriguing. The format had its fans (including, most weeks, me) but a combination of other calls on more

The other Henry IV

28th February 2019

Tomorrow night, Friday 1 March, BFI Southbank, under the title 'European Connections', begins a rich season of British television productions of classic European plays. A time there was when both the BBC and ITV produced exceptional presentations of more

Forthcoming attractions

27th February 2019

We may have been neglecting the blog - and once again we'll try hard to do better - but nonetheless we've been busy in the past months. Looking forward, here are details of a clutch of forthcoming events involving Illuminations more

Sunday links

18th November 2018

Links to articles and videos that have engaged me over the past week and more, starting with three essential Brexit-related essays. With thanks to those who alerted me to many on Twitter and elsewhere. • How the Brexiteers broke history: more

Sunday links

27th October 2018

Links to articles that attracted my attention in the three weeks (apologies!) since the last of these columns, plus the occasional video. There are some especially strong film-related articles this week. Many thanks to those who recommended many of these more