OTD in early British television: 9 July 1939

9th July 2025

John Wyver writes: Responding to the full-length drama given on the evening of Sunday 9 July 1939, Grace Wyndham Goldie in her column for The Listener did not hide her judgement from her readers:

There were half-a-dozen curious things about
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OTD in early British television: 27 May 1939

27th May 2025

John Wyver writes: The Saturday evening schedule on 27 May 1939 was taken over by a production of George H. Grimaldi's drama Behind the Schemes. The scene was laid in the publicity office of Fleet Street's (imaginary) Daily Quiver, and more