21st July 2025
John Wyver writes: Wednesday 21 July 1937 fell in the middle of the last week when the Radio Times Television Supplement was published in the London edition of the listings magazine. At the centre of three pages of detailed
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10th March 2025
John Wyver writes: Friday 10 March 1939 saw the publication of Radio Times issue no 806. Around one-third of the copies distributed in the south of England carried television listings and the 'diary column written by 'The Scanner'.
These
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10th April 2020
John Wyver writes: considering the two television covers of Radio Times from October 1936 in an earlier post piqued my interest as to what the covers of the weekly listings magazine were like throughout the rest of the 1930s.
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8th April 2020
John Wyver writes: The Future States conference, about which I have been writing and which continues online until 17 April, is focussed on illustrated magazines in the interwar period. In Britain, much of the academic work on
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21st December 2016
One reason to be cheerful during this endlessly unnerving Brexit+Trump interregnum is a little seasonal gift from BBC Genome and its blog. BBC Genome is the invaluable and all-round essential website featuring all of the BBC’s radio and television listings
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