Merry Christmas!
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
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 sixth of a series of posts about BBC Television's 1960-61 strand of original dramas - his introduction is here. I'm going to break from chronology with this post to consider the fourteenth offering more
John Wyver writes the fifth of a series of posts about BBC Television's 1960-61 strand of original dramas - his introduction is here. Like the second of the BBC's series of 20 new plays, Leopold Louth's The more
John Wyver writes the fourth of a series of posts about BBC Television's 1960-61 strand of original dramas - his introduction is here. With The Ruffians, the third of the 20 new plays broadcast in the autumn more
John Wyver writes the third of a series of posts about BBC Television's 1960-61 strand of original dramas - his introduction is here. After my rather lengthy discussion of John Whiting's A Walk 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
John Wyver writes: Among my television ephemera is a handsome 12-page pamphlet printed in black and red on high quality paper published by the BBC in the late summer of 1960. 20 new plays presented by BBC Television (respecting the more
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
Although he had expressed unacceptably misogynist views in a number of interviews, the passing of Sean Connery is a moment for sadness, and for admiration of an astonishing career. We are particularly fond of his appearance 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