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
John Wyver writes: Today would have been the 100th birthday of Sam Wanamaker (pictured above as Iago in Stratford in 1959), the American actor and director who conceived the idea and campaigned for many years to build the replica more
John Wyver writes: I am thrilled that my book Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History will be published by Bloomsbury in The Arden Shakespeare series on 27 June. It aspires to be an academic study more
John Wyver writes: The past week was occupied by a hugely enjoyable and completely fascinating research collaboration with director and tutor Ben Naylor, his colleagues and students on the MA Acting, Classical course at the Royal Central more