It was such an honour to record this conversation with one of my favourite scholars, and to be part of this brilliant podcast series. Looking forward to Season Two already

Hope Sophie’s feeling much better today. I was sorry to miss her

Recorded a podcast episode with the marvellous @helenwheatley.bsky.social today for @nfsengland.bsky.social - watch the FOLKLORE MATTERS feed wherever you get your podcasts every Thursday! #folklorematters

Thanks John!

Thanks for sharing, @illuminations.bsky.social 😊

Beautiful

Good grief!!! Does he ever engage his brain before speaking? My autistic son is WAY smarter than RFK could ever dream of being, even at 17

Professor Helen Wheatley talk on 'Posthumous Television' Professor Helen Wheatley will give a talk on 'Posthumous Television' based on her forthcoming monograph Television/Death that explores the intersections between these terms

Friends in/near London. I've been invited to talk about my latest book at Goldsmiths in a couple of weeks time. It would be lovely to see some friendly faces if you're around. All welcome.

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

@illuminations.bsky.social revealing the identity of The Scanner (at last!) As ever, impeccable historical research from my friend and colleague John Wyver

Time to get your Screen proposals submitted. Hope to see you there!

The fascinating story of Britain’s first all Black cabaret programme for TV

I really want to know some more about their style - Penelope Huston waxes lyrical about them in Sight and Sound in 1958. Does anyone know anything about them?

The season feat. solely docs made by A-R, including eps of ‘This Week’. The title obviously riffs on Free Cinema whilst referring to the ‘captive audience’ of television.

Has anyone seen any of Michael Ingrams’ documentary series ‘Look in on London’ (A-R, 1956). The two opening episodes (on street cleaners and London’s homeless population’) were shown as part of a fascinating sounding season called ‘Captive Cinema’ at the NFT

Truly an ambitious early tv ballet performance including cutaways to real swans on the Alexandra Palace lake! @illuminations.bsky.social - surprised they didn’t bring them into the studio (I love the story of the parrot who travelled by taxi from London Zoo to Ally Pally around the same time 😂)

I particularly love your forest shots!

Thank you so much John - this is exactly the thing I was after.

Thank you John - no rush at all (can’t get back to research until Friday now!)

Can anyone recommend any really good writing on the aesthetics/appreciation of the post-industrial landscape, particularly (though not necessarily confined to) the UK? @illuminations.bsky.social - I feel like this might be something you could help with? New field for me - would like some guidance!

What a wonderful OTD today - this gives a little glimpse into the richness of @illuminations.bsky.social new work on the early history of British television

Today’s OTD is the story of a popular and critical success in early British television history from @illuminations.bsky.social

Hollywood royalty in today’s OTD in early British television history by @illuminations.bsky.social

Many thanks for resharing this @deathstudiespod.bsky.social - it was such an honour to talk to you!

I missed this yesterday. John Wyver ( @illuminations.bsky.social) making the critical jump from Alison Light’s between the wars “literature of convalescence” and the adaptation of an Agatha Christie story by the BBC in 1938

Laura - I had a potential graduate student wax lyrical this lunchtime about how important your work was to her. So animated and excited by your scholarship. Thought I would pass on this lovely bit of feedback 😊

Poor and homeless. I think they were thinking of 2026 when my twins go off to university

Today’s OTD in early British TV history post from @illuminations.bsky.social is a St Andrew’s Day extravaganza from 1932!

Fast dialogue, slow shot assemblage: fascinating critical reconstruction of a 1937 broadcast of Cymbeline by @illuminations.bsky.social this morning

Realised I meant to repost rather than reply - will try again!

Yep, realised as I typed it that it was probably the wrong word but wasn’t sure what to replace it with