Sunday links
John Wyver writes: lockdown rolls on, as does the provision of a collection each week of articles and videos that I have found interesting or informative, and often both, over the past week. The list is perhaps a little less more
John Wyver writes: lockdown rolls on, as does the provision of a collection each week of articles and videos that I have found interesting or informative, and often both, over the past week. The list is perhaps a little less more
John Wyver writes the sixth of a series of posts about BBC Television's 1960-61 strand of original dramas - his introduction is here. I'm going to break from chronology with this post to consider the fourteenth offering more
John Wyver writes: Although Play for Today events are continuing, with showings on BBC Four and at BFI Southbank, our documentary Drama Out of a Crisis is happily installed on BBC iPlayer more
John Wyver writes: apologies for missing last week, but here's a new collection of stuff that I've found interesting and, in the case of the videos from #DNC2020, inspiring. Thanks, as always, to those in my Twitter timeline. • more
John Wyver writes: you have until Thursday evening to witness online, thanks to today's Berliner Ensemble, a truly astonishing as-live recording made in 1957 of Bertolt Brecht's landmark production of Mother Courage and Her Children. Directed by Brecht more
John Wyver writes: The Future States conference, about which I have been writing and which continues online until 17 April, is focussed on illustrated magazines in the interwar period. In Britain, much of the academic work on more
John Wyver writes: Earlier this week I introduced the television reviews for The Listener written by Harold Hobson between May 1947 and September 1951. I want to dig into these further, today looking at a selection of the critic's 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: I've been pre-occupied with other stuff for the last few weeks, but I want now to offer two or three 'links' posts rounding up articles that have engaged me recently - to start with, here are pieces more
John Wyver writes: The past week was occupied by a hugely enjoyable and completely fascinating research collaboration with director and tutor Ben Naylor, his colleagues and students on the MA Acting, Classical course at the Royal Central more