OTD in early British television: 16 February 1937

16th February 2025

John Wyver writes: In the afternoon and the evening of Tuesday 16 February 1937, Philip Thornton presented the fourth of six talks under the heading The Orchestra and its Instruments. 'Hybrid Winds', as the programme was subtitled, featured the perhaps more

OTD in early British television: 30 December 1936

30th December 2024

John Wyver writes: The conventional forms of conventional politics on television are absent from the pre-war Alexandra Palace service. There was no television news, and Panorama, the first regular current affairs magazine show would not debut until 1953. But there more