Sunday links

13th December 2020

John Wyver writes: another clutch of pointers to articles, videos and the occasional Twitter feed that have engaged and enlightened and delighted me during the past week - and with thanks, as always, to those on my Twitter who suggest more

Sunday links

30th September 2018

Today's links to interesting stuff that has attracted my attention over the past week or so, with thanks to Twitter recommenders. You will doubtless be delighted to see that I have once again worked out how to embed videos. • They more

Sunday links

9th September 2018

A slightly fuller list of links (and a perhaps moderately more considered one) after last week's tentative return to this format, with a clutch of articles that I have found fascinating and enriching. Many thanks to all those who alerted me more

Sunday links

15th May 2016

Back from a week's walking in Italy, I am happy to propose today's links to stuff that I have found interesting and useful over the past week; I'll contribute some additional ones later today. • Remembering John Krish, 1923-2016: touching tributes from three BFI more

Orson’s sketches for early television

19th March 2013

Early television programmes do not get anything like the attention they deserve. In part this is because very few such programmes - and I am thinking here of television before the mid-1950s - have been preserved. But even those that more

Tempo present and Tempo past

1st February 2013

Thanks to the eclectic and extraordinarily extensive DVD releases from Network we can now see a remarkable range of  ITV programmes from the past forty or so years. Who would have thought that the obscure serial more