John Wyver writes: The ambition of producer Eustace Robb's 30-line television broadcasts is again witnessed by the 50-minute broadcast in the late evening of Tuesday 18 September 1934. In what was in fact a reprise of a broadcast from July, more
John Wyver writes: I hope you'll forgive me over the next three weeks if on certain days I simply reprise via a link or links one or more earlier posts. Mostly this is because I have just received, and need more
John Wyver writes: On Friday 16 September 1938 a television OB unit was among newsreel cameras at Heston Aerodrome to provide live coverage of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s return from meeting Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden. You can see the more
John Wyver writes: Running at 56 minutes when it was first transmitted on Tuesday 13 September 1938, Felicity’s First Season by Charles Terrot has a claim to being the first full-length play written for television. The script, however, preserved on more
John Wyver writes: It's Tuesday 12 September 1939, and we are a week and two days into the war. Television came off the air on the Friday before Neville Chamberlain's declaration, but thanks to the excellent work of Andrew S. 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: The evening schedule on Wednesday 10 September 1937 featured a 9-minute talk by Anthony Bertram titled What is Good Design? The producer was Mary Adams, and the PasB detailed that the broadcast was 'illustrated by examples of more
John Wyver writes: As promised yesterday, this is the fascinating text of Grace Wyndham Goldie's LIstener column, 'The Drama of Television', dated 9 September 1936, with her first thoughts about the new medium. As the weekly's radio drama critic, more
John Wyver writes: The Wednesday evening of 7 September 1938 featured a 18-minute talk by portraitist and muralist Edward Halliday titled Masterpieces on Your Walls. Using sixteen examples, he discussed 'the advantages of modern colour reproductions which bring a more
John Wyver writes: Perhaps this is a bit of a stretch but I want an excuse to return to 1938's Radiolympia which closed 'yesterday'. So I'm speculating that Sunday 4 September would have been the day when a crew dismantled more