We are thrilled to announce that Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! and Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty have arrived - just in time for Christmas. Both spectacular films are now available to download or stream from our Film Shop - more
John Wyver writes: The evening of Wednesday 11 September 1935 saw the final 30-line broadcast from the BBC studio in Portland Place. There had been regular BBC transmissions since August 1932, but now following the Selsdon Report's recommendation that a more
John Wyver writes: On the evening of Tuesday 20 June 1933 Eustace Robb, producer of the BBC's 30-line television service, achieved a considerable coup by persauding in front of the camera for the first time the great Russian dancer more
John Wyver writes: More or less six months to the day after the start of the 'high definition' television service from Alexandra Palace, on Monday 3 May 1937, members of the Vic-Wells ballet company travelled to the studio to perform, more
John Wyver writes: On 3 April 1933 the BBC's 30-line producer Eustace Robb, who had been overseeing transmissions since the previous summer, mounted his most expansive musical production to date. Transmitted from the tiny studio BB at Broadcasting House, achieved more
John Wyver writes: In mid-March 1939, Alexandra Palace rolled out a metaphorical red carpet for the state visit of France’s President and Madame Lebrun. Alongside an outside broadcast of the King and Queen greeting the visitors at Victoria Station, more
John Wyver writes: 28 March appears to be another unremarkable date in each year of pre-war television, and as a consequence it offers the opportunity to compile another subject index to my 113 original posts to date. The format is more
John Wyver writes: the afternoon of Monday 7 February saw the first presentation of The Three Bears, an original short ballet for the screen by choreographer Joy Newton. This was not, as the News Chronicle claimed, 'the first ballet more
John Wyver writes: on the evening of Wednesday 16 January 1935, a 40-minute, 30-line broadcast featured singers Maisie Seneshall and Harold Scott, along with prima ballerina Lydia Sokolova with Harold Turner as her junior partner. Both Turner and, to more
We are delighted to present The Matthew Bourne Collection, a new 5-disc boxset on DVD and Blu-ray that brings together five landmark Bourne productions from 2015 – 2020. The beautifully presented boxset showcases the very best of New more