John Wyver writes: Some reading - and a little viewing - that might make a tiny contribution to your edification and amusement in self-isolation; Covid-19-related pieces are complemented by a number that are blessedly free of the virus. Stay well. • more
John Wyver writes: researching yesterday's post piqued my curiosity about the early BBC television arts strand The Artist's Eye, which ran from 1947 to 1949. Although the standard histories of arts television credit Monitor, which started in more
John Wyver writes: having looked at two early films from New York's Metropolitan Museum, here and here, and before I return to the topic of museums and media in the United States, I thought I would explore more
John Wyver writes: The director and television drama executive James Cellan Jones died recently at the age of 88. He was a very fine studio director who started working with the BBC in 1963, and who later became Head more
Tomorrow night, Friday 1 March, BFI Southbank, under the title 'European Connections', begins a rich season of British television productions of classic European plays. A time there was when both the BBC and ITV produced exceptional presentations of more
Links to articles and videos that have caught my eye in the past week or more - thanks, as always, to those on Twitter and elsewhere that drew my attention to them. • The fashion photography of Marilyn Stafford - more
Even as I have been neglecting the Illuminations blog, for which apologies once more, I have been writing elsewhere. Today's brief entry here points to a post I've written for a History of the BBC blog; below there is news more
Above is the temporary control room we have built for the weekend of 17-19 February at London's National Gallery. We are shooting a complex and ambitious Performance Live film titled Winged Bull in the Elephant Case which will be shown on BBC more
This evening BBC radio, television and online present the Last Night of the Proms with soprano Nina Stemme (above) from the Royal Albert Hall. Although not for me. My reckoning is that I will get to the Last Night about 10 more
Once more, I return to the blog with, I hope, sufficient energy to see us through at least part of the autumn. So to start with, as I've contributed in the past (even if not too often recently) here are more