John Wyver writes: The 8 March 1939 edition of the popular magazine The Bystander carried a quarter-page ad for the recently-installed television studio at Selfridge's in London's Oxford Street. 'TELEVISION IS *HERE', it proclaimed. 'You can't shut your eyes to more
John Wyver writes: The National and Regional programmes on the afternoon of Monday 7 March 1932 carried a radio broadcast of a violin and piano recital given by Helen Luard and May Jardine. But their programme of Beethoven and Handel more
John Wyver writes: Late - well, 10.24pm, delayed because of a boxing bout - on the the evening of Monday 6 March 1939, the fifth edition of a series called Guest Night (above) gathered six guests and host A.G. Street more
John Wyver writes: The evening of Sunday 5 March 1939, from 9.08pm to 10.54pm, was taken up with a studio restaging of Little Ladyship (above), written by Ian Hay after the Hungarian original by Istvan Bekeffi and Adorjan more
John Wyver writes: Having celebrated yesterday, with the post on Teresa Deevey's The King of Spain's Daughter, the breadth of the television drama produced at AP before the war, here is a recognition of how formally innovative it could more
John Wyver writes: The eclecticism and breadth of the drama produced pre-war at Alexandra Palace is indicated by the production on Friday 3 March 1939 of The King of Spain's Daughter by Teresa Deevy. This was a play that more
John Wyver writes: the afternoon of Tuesday 2 March 1937, just four months after the AP service had begun, featured one of television's most innovative pre-war programmes. Fugue for Four Cameras was a strikingly experimental six-minute dance collaboration created by more
John Wyver writes: Sunday 1 March 1936 saw The Observer splash an exclusive interview with BBC director of television Gerald Cock (above, in his Alexandra Palace office) eight months ahead of the offical opening of the service. The article, bylined more
John Wyver writes: With 88 original OTD posts now on this blog, I thought it might be appropriate to compile this index of the February ones, to complement those for January and for December (and a bit of more
John Wyver writes: Before the war The Times did not employ a regular television critic, but occasional anonymous columns offered acute reflections on the development of the new medium. These included a piece published on Monday 27 February 1939 headed more