John Wyver writes: Monday 24 April 1939 saw one of the BBC's pair of mobile control rooms parked outside Burlington House for an afternoon outside broadcast from Varnishing Day for the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. Above is the image Radio more
Back from holiday; normal service resumes with OTD post no 123... John Wyver writes: On the afternoon of Tuesday 13 April 1937, and then again that evening, a second series of producer Mary Adams' series The World of Women opened with more
John Wyver writes: After a concert from Jack Hylton and his band on the evening of Friday 17 March 1939, Alexandra Palace broadcast Animals, Anatomy, Artists, a talk by John Skeaping on 'the three main types of animal art - more
John Wyver writes: On Sunday 26 February 1939 Sight and Sound was a studio 'bee' hosted by Sir Kenneth Clark, youthful director of the National Gallery known to friends and peers as âKâ. Seated in a wide semi-circle with more
John Wyver writes: Making a Poster on the evening of Monday 21 February 1938 featured artist Dora Clarke, familiar from other AP broadcasts, taking the audience through the stages of producing what was not exactly a poster, but rather the more
John Wyver writes: the evening of Thursday 9 February 1939 saw a 40-minute edition of Contrasts, which was a catch-all title for juxtapositions of variety artists from differing traditions. This was a particularly eclectic line-up featuring dancers from Java and more
John Wyver writes: What is arguably the origin moment of one the simplest and most obvious television techniques occurred in a broadcast talk on the evening of 4 February 1938. The esteemed art historian R.H. Wilenski was reviewing the more
John Wyver writes: At Alexandra Palace on Wednesday 27 January 1937 painter and printmaker John Piper (above) discussed 'The picture in the modern home' with architect and designer Serge Chermayeff. In London Galleries - Art and Modern Architecture, more
John Wyver writes: This is a cautionary little tale about the perils of live television - and of roller skating. The main offering on the evening of Saturday 21 January 1939 was producer Harry Pringle's Cabaret bill featuring comedy more
John Wyver writes: tucked into the evening schedule on Monday 10 January 1938 was a ten-minute broadcast titled Alexander Calder's Mobiles, and there's a case to be made for this as the first television programme conceived as visual art; not, more