Tonight at BFI Southbank I am introducing three documentaries about the arts made for British television more than fifty years ago. The screening is part of the excellent BFI project Visions of Change about television documentaries from more
Tonight sees the opening of an exciting series of screenings and talks at BFI Southbank exploring the evolution of the television documentary in Britain. Visions of Change features a host of television treasures from the 1950s and '60s - more
Long ago and far away I was a ten-year-old trainspotter. I would stand on the station footbridge at Whitstable noting down the numbers of the recently introduced electric trains that passed beneath me. Then I would run home to underline with scrupulous more
• Shedding her skin: The Good Wife, currently running on More4 (with, among others, Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma, above) is simply the best thing on TV - did you see last week's show with the prison consultant? more
(Go here for a note about why I have started to post in this way.) • 100 Voices That made the BBC - Elections: a glorious archive site about the televising of elections from the BBC and more
Unlikely as it may seem, read of the week may be Reeves Wiedeman's article for Popular Mechanics about how 300,000+ copies of The New York Times reach the streets every day. Below is a selection of other pieces to engage more
Interesting things from the past week and more, with sincere thanks as well as apologies to those who pointed me towards some of them, and who I have failed to acknowledge below. • Grammys 2015: transcript of Bob Dylan's MusiCares more
Welcome indeed is the appearance today on BBC Arts Online of Ken Russell's 11-minute film profile from 1959 of the two Scottish painters Robert MacBryde (1913-66) and Robert Colquhoun (1914-62). The film, which was more
On Sunday at BFI Southbank the estimable programming strand Miss Believed Wiped presented a screening of the ground-breaking 1967 BBC Television satellite broadcast Our World. The strand usually showcases programmes that were once thought lost but have been recently more
Just exactly one year ago, Illuminations, working with the Screen Plays research project, released a DVD box-set of the BBC's 15-part series from 1960, An Age of Kings. The series is an extraordinarily ambitious live studio production of all more