John Wyver writes: OTD, Monday 29 November 1937, from the BBC's 'high definition' Television service... more Shakespeare. Scenes from Cymbeline, broadcast from 3.39pm to 4.24pm, and then again from 9.31pm to 9.55pm, was a presentation of minimally restaged elements more
John Wyver writes: on the afternoon of this day in 1931, Saturday 28 November, the National Programme of the BBC's Sound service broadcast a light music recital in a studio at Savoy Hill given by the Gershom Parkington Quintet and more
John Wyver writes: OTD in early British television, on 27 November 1938, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company made its television debut with its production of The Wooing of Anne Hathaway. The tradition of a major drama production each Sunday evening more
John Wyver writes: A blog post - many months after the last one, and with much to catch up on. I have been prompted to return, at least temporarily, by a kind suggestion from Lawrence Napper on Facebook. Over the more
John Wyver writes: Here's a remarkable trace of my, and of Illuminations' and Channel 4's pasts - a programme break from 14 January 1984 with a continuity announcement and slide trailing the first documentary I produced, Six Into One: The more
John Wyver writes: Extraordinarily, this afternoon as a little tribute to Wider Television Access, a group I co-founded in 1980, BFI Southbank is screening a 1963 episode of ITC's series The Saint, Teresa with Roger Moore and The Avengers: more
John Wyver writes: First broadcast just over a fortnight ago, Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain has now taken its place on BBC iPlayer where (for licence fee payers in the more
John Wyver writes: I know that posting comments to blog posts is so late noughties, and as a consequence no-one does it anymore, but I did want to try this as an experiment - and I'm very grateful to those more
John Wyver writes: Ahead of tomorrow night's broadcast (9pm, BBCFour), here's the fifth post in a series about our new documentary Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain. The first four are here, more
John Wyver writes: Since my third post in this series about our forthcoming film Coventry Cathedral: Building fo a New Britain (the first two are here and here) more