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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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
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3rd December 2024
John Wyver writes: on the afternoon of this day, Friday 3 December 1937, four members of The Irish Players came to Alexandra Palace at short notice to play Lady Gregory's one-act drama The Rising of the Moon. They were
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20th April 2017
I am delighted that this week the new issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Television and Radio has published my article 'Exploring the lost television and technique of producer Fred O’Donovan'. The article is developed
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