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OTD in early British television reprises

10th December 2025

John Wyver writes: As I noted last week, since I have contributed here more than a year of near-daily posts recognising 'on this day' events in the first decade of British television, I am now proposing a weekly reprise more

Links for the weekend

28th April 2013

This is both irresistible and a touch magical: an eight-minute video courtesy of The Criterion Collection with Martin Scorsese talking about and demo-ing the recent restoration of Laurence Olivier's 1955 Richard III (above). Shot more

To be… to be… to be… to be… to be… to be… – or not?

29th March 2013

In the diary next week are two Hamlets. On Monday afternoon I am introducing the 1964 television Hamlet at Elsinore at BFI Southbank, and then on Wednesday I have a ticket to theĀ Royal Shakespeare Company's new more

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