John Wyver writes: Let us return to table tennis on television. A week ago on this blog, we saw a studio demonstration on 22 January 1938. A year on, on Saturday 28 January 1939, we can travel with one more
John Wyver writes: At Alexandra Palace on Wednesday 27 January 1937 painter and printmaker John Piper (above) discussed 'The picture in the modern home' with architect and designer Serge Chermayeff. In London Galleries - Art and Modern Architecture, more
John Wyver writes: the whole of the afternoon schedule on Monday 24 January 1938 was occupied by a presentation of act 2 of Richard Wagner's music drama Tristan and Isolde. In the evening this was played again, in perhaps more
John Wyver writes: First transmitted on the afternoon of Monday 23 January 1939, Rehearsal for a Drama is one of around a dozen plays that premiered on the Television service from Alexandra Palace. Written for the new medium, and set more
John Wyver writes: one part of Saturday primetime (not that there was such a concept yet) on 22 January 1938 was given over to a 13-minute Table Tennis Demonstration by the great Hungarian-British champion Victor Barna and four members more
John Wyver writes: This is a cautionary little tale about the perils of live television - and of roller skating. The main offering on the evening of Saturday 21 January 1939 was producer Harry Pringle's Cabaret bill featuring comedy more
John Wyver writes: A mystery. Afternoon transmissions on Tuesday 19 January 1937 included the 8-minute unbilled drama The Underground Murder Mystery by J. Bissell Thomas. Produced by George More O'Ferrall, this would appear to be the first original script (that more
John Wyver writes: at 3.01pm and again at 9.01pm on Monday 18 January 1937, via the Marconi-EMI system, Alexandra Palace transmitted a 15-minute programme of folk songs and sea shanties by the Arts League of Service (ALS). Bunny Churcher, John more
John Wyver writes: the evening of Monday 17 January 1938 saw the first broadcast (with a repeat on the following Friday afternoon) of Royston Morley's hour-long adaptation of John Webster's Jacobean drama, The Duchess of Malfi. The classical more
John Wyver writes: on the evening of Wednesday 16 January 1935, a 40-minute, 30-line broadcast featured singers Maisie Seneshall and Harold Scott, along with prima ballerina Lydia Sokolova with Harold Turner as her junior partner. Both Turner and, to more