John Wyver writes: one part of Saturday primetime (not that there was such a concept yet) on 22 January 1938 was given over to a 13-minute Table Tennis Demonstration by the great Hungarian-British champion Victor Barna and four members more
John Wyver writes: This is a cautionary little tale about the perils of live television - and of roller skating. The main offering on the evening of Saturday 21 January 1939 was producer Harry Pringle's Cabaret bill featuring comedy more
John Wyver writes: A mystery. Afternoon transmissions on Tuesday 19 January 1937 included the 8-minute unbilled drama The Underground Murder Mystery by J. Bissell Thomas. Produced by George More O'Ferrall, this would appear to be the first original script (that more
John Wyver writes: at 3.01pm and again at 9.01pm on Monday 18 January 1937, via the Marconi-EMI system, Alexandra Palace transmitted a 15-minute programme of folk songs and sea shanties by the Arts League of Service (ALS). Bunny Churcher, John more
John Wyver writes: the evening of Monday 17 January 1938 saw the first broadcast (with a repeat on the following Friday afternoon) of Royston Morley's hour-long adaptation of John Webster's Jacobean drama, The Duchess of Malfi. The classical more
John Wyver writes: on the evening of Wednesday 16 January 1935, a 40-minute, 30-line broadcast featured singers Maisie Seneshall and Harold Scott, along with prima ballerina Lydia Sokolova with Harold Turner as her junior partner. Both Turner and, to more
John Wyver writes: the afternoon of Saturday 14 January at 3.30pm saw the second presentation of what was now, given the timing of the the transmission, somewhat incongruously named Schubert Night. I previously noted the first broadcast on 9 more
John Wyver writes: on Thursday 13 January 1938 the schedule carried an outside broadcast from the Chiswick headquarters of the London Transport Passenger Board. The focus was the training of a London bus driver, created as what in the language more
John Wyver writes: Tuesday 12 January 1937 saw the first broadcast from Alexandra Palace of a series titled The World of Women. Conceived by producer Cecil Lewis, who was soon to depart for Hollywood, the fortnightly strand of broadcasts on more
John Wyver writes: after Alexander Calder yesterday, we can continue the theme of early television's engagements with modernism by focussing on New Architecture, a 17-minute talk on Tuesday 11 January 1938 given by John Summerson and prompted by the more