John Wyver writes: By Friday 15 July 1938 the BBC's mobile control unit was well-established at Roehampton Club providing the third of four days' OBs from the private sports facility in south London. The range of summer leisure activities more
John Wyver writes: Ninety-five years ago today, for 26 minutes from 3.30pm on the afternoon of Monday 14 July 1930, The Man with the Flower in his Mouth by Luigi Pirandello was broadcast. This is unquestionably a significant more
John Wyver writes: Another first - the opening 10-minute episode on the evening of Tuesday 12 July 1938 of television's earliest serial "soap", written by venerable actor Louis Goodrich and titled Ann and Harold. The main characters are Ann Teviot, more
John Wyver writes: We have already seen how in May 1938 television's love affair with Jane Austen began with a compacted adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Less than two months later, the new medium first entered the world of more
John Wyver writes: 'Television seen 200 miles away' ran the heading of a front-page story in The Era on Thursday 7 July 1938, along with the sub-heard, 'Paris received on the South Downs'. And the report continued,
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John Wyver writes: 'Fashion' in programmes from pre-war Alexandra Palace invariably meant clothes for women, but there was an outlier on the evening of Tuesday 6 July 1937. Men's Dress Reform was a 17-minute programme produced by Mary Adams looking more
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: The late-night 30-line broadcast on Tuesday 4 July 1933 featured alongside comedian Sydney Arnold and Olive Groves with songs from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, the Russo-Finnish dancer Cleo Nordi. Trained in St Petersburg, she had 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: For just over an hour on the afternoon of Sunday 2 July 1939 OB cameras from Scanner 2 (its counterpart was at Wimbledon) relayed the parade of National Service organisations in Hyde Park. Some 20,000 volunteers marched more