Magic Rays season: members’ booking
John Wyver writes: Just a reminder that BFI Members’ booking for the BFI Southbank Magic Rays of Light season opens today at midday. Booking for everyone else opens on Thursday at the same time.
You can book for the two programmes of documentaries (and a drama) about early television as well as for three screenings showcasing feature films that envisaged television in weird and wonderful ways before the BBC’s high definition service began at Alexandra Palace in November 1936. All of which is a celebration of the centenary of television and of the publication by Bloomsbury and the BFI on 8 January of my book, Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain.
Tickets will also be available for the BFI Reuben Library Talk about the book on the evening of Monday 12 January. I’ll be in conversation with BFI curator Lisa Kerrigan, and I’m so pleased she agreed to take part. Here’s the blurb for that:
Magic Rays of Light (Bloomsbury) is a cultural history of television in Britain before the Second World War. John Wyver argues that, contrary to popular memory, this television was extensive, complex and innovative, as well as intimately entangled with the cinema, theatre, music and dance of the time. John Wyver will be in conversation with Lisa Kerrigan, Senior Curator Television, BFI National Archive.
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