John Wyver writes: Welcome to a new index of the earliest group of my daily posts about an aspect of British television before the Second World War. Listed below are the posts that ran from late November through December. As more
John Wyver writes: I'm not sure quite how the holidays and any additional lockdown strictures will impact Sunday links over the next couple of Sundays, so make the most of this clutch of stuff that has engaged me over the more
John Wyver writes: Since my third post in this series about our forthcoming film Coventry Cathedral: Building fo a New Britain (the first two are here and here) more
John Wyver writes: with Monday 12 October now confirmed for BBC Four's initial transmission of Drama out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today, I'm going to continue my series of posts about the making of the documentary. more
John Wyver writes: The summer is nearly over, the Ashes nearly lost (again), series 2 of the wonderful Succession (above, HBO/Sky Atlantic) is with us and there's not much going on in politics. So it feels like a good moment more
Last weekend my sister Sheila celebrated her 60th birthday in Whitstable, and a lovely occasion it was - so that's my excuse this time for missing last week's links. Here's a selection from the past fortnight, with the usual implied more
John Wyver writes: Earlier today I spoke on a panel at the Archives, Access and Research conference at BFI Southbank. Co-organised by the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production at Royal Holloway, University of more
Let's for a moment forget the woes of the world and look forward to some television treats coming up at BFI Southbank during February. A second season of Forgotten Dramas (the first was in 2015) features a number of fascinating titles more
I've had a wonderful birthday week in France, and now I'm back with all sorts of new challenges to face. Here's a selection of three things for today, before - inspired a bit by my birthday blog - I start more
Each day I highlight three things (although on some days, like today, the post is a little late). Sometimes there are connections between the three things, oftentimes there are not. • The future of memory - disrupting the archives to more