John Wyver writes: considering the two television covers of Radio Times from October 1936 in an earlier post piqued my interest as to what the covers of the weekly listings magazine were like throughout the rest of the 1930s. more
John Wyver writes: The Future States conference, about which I have been writing and which continues online until 17 April, is focussed on illustrated magazines in the interwar period. In Britain, much of the academic work on more
John Wyver writes: Earlier this week I introduced the television reviews for The Listener written by Harold Hobson between May 1947 and September 1951. I want to dig into these further, today looking at a selection of the critic's more
John Wyver writes: Childishly pleased as I mostly certainly am with my headline, it's not my only reason for starting a short series of posts about Harold Hobson (1904-1992). Specifically I intend to explore Hobson's television criticism for the BBC's more
John Wyver writes: researching yesterday's post piqued my curiosity about the early BBC television arts strand The Artist's Eye, which ran from 1947 to 1949. Although the standard histories of arts television credit Monitor, which started in more
John Wyver writes: having looked at two early films from New York's Metropolitan Museum, here and here, and before I return to the topic of museums and media in the United States, I thought I would explore more
John Wyver writes: The director and television drama executive James Cellan Jones died recently at the age of 88. He was a very fine studio director who started working with the BBC in 1963, and who later became Head more
John Wyver writes: So it's the official publication day for Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History. My thanks to The Arden Shakespeare for taking this on, to Gregory Doran and other colleagues at the RSC for all more
John Wyver writes: I've been pre-occupied with other stuff for the last few weeks, but I want now to offer two or three 'links' posts rounding up articles that have engaged me recently - to start with, here are pieces more
My book Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History is published this coming week by Bloomsbury as part of The Arden Shakespeare series. I own to being very pleased about this, and I am writing a series of more