9th September 2025
John Wyver writes: As promised yesterday, this is the fascinating text of Grace Wyndham Goldie's LIstener column, 'The Drama of Television', dated 9 September 1936, with her first thoughts about the new medium. As the weekly's radio drama critic,
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4th September 2025
John Wyver writes: Perhaps this is a bit of a stretch but I want an excuse to return to 1938's Radiolympia which closed 'yesterday'. So I'm speculating that Sunday 4 September would have been the day when a crew dismantled
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30th August 2025
John Wyver writes: We are back at Radiolympia today, for the sixth day of the 1938 edition, on Tuesday 30 August. Come and Be Televised played in the morning, just after a broadcast from the fair by Mr Middleton about
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23rd August 2025
John Wyver writes: Late August means it's time for the annual trade show Radiolympia. Manufacturers and consumers gathered for a week or so in west London to look at the latest radio and television receivers and to be entertained by
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