The Sunday dozen
John Wyver writes: welcome to links to some of what I found vital and valuable in my week's reading and viewing, starting with a fine discovery at the Library of Congress which is illustrated above. • Lost 19th more
John Wyver writes: welcome to links to some of what I found vital and valuable in my week's reading and viewing, starting with a fine discovery at the Library of Congress which is illustrated above. • Lost 19th more
In a way, you're spoiling us - and we're grateful. 'Us' being the nerdy types fascinated by television's deep archive. For so long, because of rights restrictions and a general lack of interest, television's history, beyond select monetisable shows like more
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with thanks to Ian Greaves for more
John Wyver writes: Welcome to a new index of the earliest group of my daily posts about an aspect of British television before the Second World War. Listed below are the posts that ran from late November through December. As more
John Wyver writes: I'm not sure quite how the holidays and any additional lockdown strictures will impact Sunday links over the next couple of Sundays, so make the most of this clutch of stuff that has engaged me over the more
John Wyver writes: Since my third post in this series about our forthcoming film Coventry Cathedral: Building fo a New Britain (the first two are here and here) more
John Wyver writes: with Monday 12 October now confirmed for BBC Four's initial transmission of Drama out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today, I'm going to continue my series of posts about the making of the documentary. more
John Wyver writes: The summer is nearly over, the Ashes nearly lost (again), series 2 of the wonderful Succession (above, HBO/Sky Atlantic) is with us and there's not much going on in politics. So it feels like a good moment more
Last weekend my sister Sheila celebrated her 60th birthday in Whitstable, and a lovely occasion it was - so that's my excuse this time for missing last week's links. Here's a selection from the past fortnight, with the usual implied more
John Wyver writes: Earlier today I spoke on a panel at the Archives, Access and Research conference at BFI Southbank. Co-organised by the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production at Royal Holloway, University of more