John Wyver writes: I am increasingly fascinated by British television in the early to mid-1950s. This was a moment when the medium was becoming increasingly confident and an ever more significant presence in both public life and in the private more
John Wyver writes: now more or less in its final form, here is another group of links to articles and videos that have engaged me over the past week. As always, my Twitter timeline is a wonderful source for these, more
John Wyver writes: another selection of things that have caught my eye and engaged my attention over the past week - with my thanks, as ever, to all those in my Twitter feed and on FaceBook who make such interesting more
John Wyver writes: back to standard-issue links this week, and I'm determined not to lead with gloomy analyses of the world, but rather with a clutch of recommendations both for and about The Queen's Gambit (Netflix, above - a framegrab more
https://youtu.be/1AfNYztas2c https://youtu.be/ExPm_hJQYpQ Normal service will be resumed next week, after seven days that hopefully will be less exhausting, but unlikely to be more exhilarating, than the past seven. In the meantime there's lots of reading via:
moreJohn Wyver writes: on Sunday I posted the first part of a compendious list of 50 links to celebrate a century of Sunday links since we revamped the website; this is the second part with another more
John Wyver writes: this is the one hundredth set of Sunday links since we over-hauled our website back in 2014. The feature took a number of forms before that, including 'Links for the weekend', and there was a long period more
John Wyver writes: Although Play for Today events are continuing, with showings on BBC Four and at BFI Southbank, our documentary Drama Out of a Crisis is happily installed on BBC iPlayer more
John Wyver writes: The world gets worse (and will, for at least another 9 sleeps), but hopefully Sunday links stays much the same. My thanks to those in my Twitter feed who continue to recommend so much great stuff for more
John Wyver writes: It's been quite a week. As I said on Twitter, the response to Drama Out of a Crisis has been more extensive and enthusiastic than to almost anything I've made in nearly forty years as a producer. more