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OTD in early British television: 9 December 1938

9th December 2024

John Wyver writes: The Christmas quotient of programming was ramped up on the evening of Friday 9 December 1938 with a 10-minute broadcast, Presents for the Children no 1, presented by the well-regarded painter Edward Halliday. The artist recommended more

Looking at ‘The Artist’s Eye’

20th March 2020

John Wyver writes: researching yesterday's post piqued my curiosity about the early BBC television arts strand The Artist's Eye, which ran from 1947 to 1949. Although the standard histories of arts television credit Monitor, which started in more

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