May 16 saw the premiere of our new Sky Arts programme, Simon Rattle conducts The Seasons. Just exactly a month before at London's Barbican Centre we recorded the great conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Chorus more
After a really splendid week walking in Italy (thanks to Inntravel and their itinerary A Stroll Through History), it's back to a busy week, starting with Simon Rattle on Sky Arts tonight. Monday Tonight at 9pm sees the premiere of our new Sky more
Back from a week's walking in Italy, I am happy to propose today's links to stuff that I have found interesting and useful over the past week; I'll contribute some additional ones later today. • Remembering John Krish, 1923-2016: touching tributes from three BFI more
A somewhat truncated list from my post-Shakespeare Live! holiday... normal service to be resumed next week. • Lonely rangers - the dark side of westerns: Michael Newton for the Guardian on an excellent BFI Southbank season, Ride Lonesome: more
Just over a couple of years ago Illuminations worked with the Shakespearean London Theatres research project (ShaLT) to produce a clutch of performance videos and interviews about early modern theatre. One of these, which is embedded more
Picking up the theme from Monday's post, here's another wonderful glimpse of early television, albeit this time in the United States. The embedded film below comes courtesy of the great and glorious Prelinger Archives which offers online some more
Andrew Saladino's video essay about the cinematography in Yasujiro Ozu's Floating Weeds, 1959, isn't the most innovative or the most profound or the most theoretically rigorous analysis of this kind. But it is beautifully assembled, is genuinely informative more
So which magazines do you access online and which do you (still) read as print? TLS and London Review of Books still drop through my letterbox every week and fortnight respectively, and I find something pleasingly material about more
Among the books that I collect and cherish are early publications about television. Anything from before about 1960 qualifies as 'early', but volumes from the 1930s and 1940s are especially interesting. So I was particularly pleased on a visit to Whitstable on Sunday more
The usual weekly selection of links to things I have found interesting to read and to watch over the past seven days. • The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & Associates - capturing the Kennedys: it's great news that more