John Wyver writes: on this St Andrew's Day in 1932, the 30-line Television service, which for the three months past had been operated by the BBC, presented an ambitious Scotland-themed variety show. Woolwich-born Helen McKay (real name: Ruby Ellen more
David Warner, who played Henry VI in Peter Hall and John Barton's landmark RSC production of The Wars of the Roses in 1963, has died aged 80. Broadcast by the BBC in 1965 and released on DVD and download by more
John Wyver writes: to start the new year after the holidays, don't forget my review of the year, and here's another selection of articles, videos and more that engaged or interested me over the past 10 more
John Wyver writes: First broadcast just over a fortnight ago, Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain has now taken its place on BBC iPlayer where (for licence fee payers in the more
John Wyver writes: I know that posting comments to blog posts is so late noughties, and as a consequence no-one does it anymore, but I did want to try this as an experiment - and I'm very grateful to those 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: As the headline indicates, this is the third post in a series about our new film Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain. Following an introduction and a discussion of the opening sequence, more
John Wyver writes: Having yesterday introduced our new film Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain and promised a series of posts about the project, today I begin with a detailed discussion of just one section more
John Wyver writes: another lockdown weekend, another list of links to articles and videos that have engaged me over the past seven days; my thanks as always to all those in my Twitter timeline who share interesting, informative and - more
John Wyver writes the fifth of a series of posts about BBC Television's 1960-61 strand of original dramas - his introduction is here. Like the second of the BBC's series of 20 new plays, Leopold Louth's The more