John Wyver writes: Tucked in at the end of the afternoon's programming on Monday 5 July 1937 is a curious three-minute 'local OB' titled The Coronation Train. Goodness knows that the result was like but, with commentary by Leslie Mitchell, more
John Wyver writes: Stage representations of the Great War were rare in the first decade after the Armistice, and it was R.C. Sherriff’s Journey’s End, which became a major hit after its premiere in late December 1928, that defined the more
John Wyver writes: Lookers-in on the evening of Saturday 1 July 1939 were treated to a 50-minute anthology of scenes from literature about the law. Compiled by Barbara Nixon and produced by Desmond Davis, this followed on from a more
John Wyver writes: The magazine show Picture Page was the widely recognised 'hit' of the pre-war Television service from Alexandra Palace. By the summer of 1939 it was mounted twice on Thursdays, in the afternoon and evening, with often little more
John Wyver writes: The afternoon and evening of Monday 28 June 1937 saw one of pre-war television's most innovative performance programmes. Artists who worked regularly in the Alexandra Palace studios often found the resources of time and space frustrating, but more
John Wyver writes: At twenty-past-four on Monday 26 June 1939, just two months before war was declared, Grace Wyndham Goldie showed her green ticket to gain access to Broadcasting House’s Concert Hall (above, in 1932, soon after its opening). The more
John Wyver writes: On Saturday 24 June 1939, following a day of visits to Lord's for the Test match against the West Indies, viewers could enjoy the evening's 70-minute staging of Edgar Wallace's play Smoky Cell. Producer Michael Barry was more
John Wyver writes: On the afternoon of Thursday 22 June 1939 one of the BBC's mobile control units was stationed at Waterloo while the other was by the Victoria Memorial close to Buckingham Palace. Six weeks or so before more
John Wyver writes: On Monday 21 June 1937, at 3.03pm for just 15 minutes, and then again at 3.42pm for a further 10 minutes, the Television service broadcast a live OB from the Wimbledon Championships for the very first time. more
John Wyver writes: Mid evening on Monday 19 June 1939 AP offered episode 3 of Rough Island Story, a six-part history of Britain with Harold Nicolson and J.F. Horrabin, who we have already encountered in these blog posts as more