John Wyver writes: On the evening of Monday 21 December 1936 extracts from from the current stage production T.S. Eliot's religious drama Murder in the Cathedral were played for a third time at Alexandra Palace. Despite having to work within more
John Wyver writes: The evening line-up from Alexandra Palace on Tuesday 20 December 1938 featured a News Map talk about Poland, a concert by Eric Wild and his Band, and what was billed as Tactile Bee, in which blindfolded celebs more
John Wyver writes: There was a sense of increasing confidence at Alexandra Palace at the end of 1938, with sales of receivers finally picking up and programmes becoming both more ambitious and more polished. This was reflected in announcements for more
John Wyver writes: Presented on the afternoon of Monday 13 December 1937 was the most ambitious television ballet to date, act 2 of, as it was billed, Le lac des cygnes, or Swan Lake to the rest of us. The more
John Wyver writes: the evening of Saturday 11 December 1937 featured an ambitious half-hour broadcast of act 3 of Verdi's Aida given by the Matania Operatic Society. Opera was an important element of the transmissions from Alexandra Palace, although this more
John Wyver writes: this day in early British television might be celebrated for the Thursday afternoon in 1936 which featured the first relay of a sound broadcast on the Alexandra Palace service. At 15.59 that day the National Programme announcement more
John Wyver writes: On the way to New Haven for a screening and panel at Yale (so, yes, look out for another Postcard from there), I spent a busy day and a half in New York. These was a time more
We are delighted to present The Matthew Bourne Collection, a new 5-disc boxset on DVD and Blu-ray that brings together five landmark Bourne productions from 2015 – 2020. The beautifully presented boxset showcases the very best of New more
Our Christmas treat for you is our co-production with New Adventures of Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes screened on BBC Two on Christmas Day and now on BBC iPlayer for a year. Filmed more
John Wyver writes the second of a series of posts about BBC Television's 1960-61 strand of original dramas - his introduction is here. Those of us with an interest in the history of television drama will see more