John Wyver writes: Perhaps this is a bit of a stretch but I want an excuse to return to 1938's Radiolympia which closed 'yesterday'. So I'm speculating that Sunday 4 September would have been the day when a crew dismantled more
John Wyver writes: I have one further Radiolympia post to come tomorrow, but today (with apologies for the lateness and brevity of the post) marks the last day of the 1938 edition. This closed on the evening of Saturday 3 more
John Wyver writes: Tucked into an upbeat, celebratory schedule from Radiolympia in the early evening of Friday 2 September 1938 was a television reminder of the 'war-mindedness' of these days running up to the Munich crisis. In a five-minute slot more
John Wyver writes (just after midday): On the morning of Friday 1 September 1939, AP broadcast an edition of Come and Be Televised from Radiolympia. Among Elizabeth Cowell's guests were Mr J. McIntyre giving 'his impressions of English life as more
John Wyver writes: The day before closedown, Thursday 31 August, saw the publication of a Listener column by Grace Wyndham Goldie responding in part to a broadcast by Paul Robeson. A week and a day earlier the great singer had more
John Wyver writes: We are back at Radiolympia today, for the sixth day of the 1938 edition, on Tuesday 30 August. Come and Be Televised played in the morning, just after a broadcast from the fair by Mr Middleton about more
John Wyver writes: Saturday 29 August 1936 was the fourth day of test transmissions from Alexandra Palace arranged especially for reception at the Radiolympia trade fair in west London. The opening of the BBC's 'high definition' service was over two more
John Wyver writes: On the evening of Monday 28 August 1939, just five days before television's closedown, producer John Pudney's radio feature Modern Pastoral, about the coming of electricity to the Essex hamlet of Duton Hill, went out on the more
John Wyver writes: The evening of Sunday 27 August 1939 saw the first performance of Michael Barry's production (on which he was assisted by Eric Crozier) of the comedy A Cup of Happiness by Eden Philpotts (above). Leon M. more
John Wyver writes: Saturday 26 August 1939, and war is just a week and a day away. The National Radio Show of Radiolympia is in full swing, and on this fourth day Come and Be Televised, Picture Page and a more