John Wyver writes: on this St Andrew's Day in 1932, the 30-line Television service, which for the three months past had been operated by the BBC, presented an ambitious Scotland-themed variety show. Woolwich-born Helen McKay (real name: Ruby Ellen more
John Wyver writes: on the afternoon of this day in 1931, Saturday 28 November, the National Programme of the BBC's Sound service broadcast a light music recital in a studio at Savoy Hill given by the Gershom Parkington Quintet and more
John Wyver writes: A blog post - many months after the last one, and with much to catch up on. I have been prompted to return, at least temporarily, by a kind suggestion from Lawrence Napper on Facebook. Over the 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