John Wyver writes: After a lengthy hiatus and posts concerned with other matters, we need to return our attention to the pre-war television schedules. So let's look back 88 years to Thursday 25 November 1937 when the high definition service more
John Wyver writes: Over the weekend of Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September 1938, the BBC's mobile unit made a return visit to Pinewood film studios for three OB broadcasts. Pinewood was the location for the first and most successful more
John Wyver writes: Today, a short original post about an outside broadcast from Euston station on Monday 19 September 1938, along with links to two earlier columns about railway-related broadcasts. The OB was a half-hour mid-morning presentation with Leslie Mitchell to more
John Wyver writes: On Friday 16 September 1938 a television OB unit was among newsreel cameras at Heston Aerodrome to provide live coverage of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s return from meeting Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden. You can see the more
John Wyver writes: For just over half an hour from 5.29pm on Wednesday 15 September 1937, a test outside broadcast from the Arsenal Football Club at Highbury showed part of a match between Arsenal Reserves and Millwall Reserves. Unbilled in more
John Wyver writes: It's Tuesday 12 September 1939, and we are a week and two days into the war. Television came off the air on the Friday before Neville Chamberlain's declaration, but thanks to the excellent work of Andrew S. more
John Wyver writes: One last Radiolympia post, this time from the final day of the 1936 edition, Saturday 5 September. On this day producer Cecil Lewis, a radio pioneer and soon to be tempted to Hollywood to adapt his more
John Wyver writes: Somewhat distracted today, so only a very brief and late OTD. The afternoon of Friday 20 August 1937 saw a 'local OB' from Alexandra Park titled Sheepdog Trial. Billed as 'a demonstration of canine intelligence', the 20-minute more
John Wyver writes: On Saturday 19 August 1939, two weeks and a day before the declaration of war, one of the BBC's OB units was at the Oval for the first day's play (of just three) in the final Test more
John Wyver writes: Late evening on Monday 15 August 1939 saw a mobile control unit in Hammersmith for an hour-long outside broadcast from the Palais. Viewers saw dancing including the 'Palais Glide', 'Big Apple', , 'Jitter Bug', and 'Boops-a-Daisy', as more