On the MUP blog!

Author Iram Kamran Qureshi rediscovers Wendy Toye, a brilliant and too-often forgotten #FilmDirector,

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/01...

Her new book #WendyToye publishes TODAY in the #BritishFilmMakers series!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165794/

#PatrickWymark (born 11 July 1926) plays The Devil in THE SOLDIERS TALE at the Edinburgh Festival on 4-9 September 1967. With #NickyHenson as the soldier and #UnaStubbs as the Princess, directed by #WendyToye. www.wymark.org.uk/soldier.html

#OTD 30 May 1939 - "The Insect Play" by Karel & Joseph Capek.
It was published in 1921 and premiered in 1922.
Starring;#FrankBirch, #WendyToye, #LeslieFrench, #WildredFranks (buff.ly/BqA5LPM)
Settings by #MalcolmBakerSmith.
Produced by #StephenThomas

#OTD - 28 Apr 1939 - "The Mizzen Cross-Trees"
A Revue of Nautical Songs & Dances.
Wit: #JohnGoss, #TaylorHarris, #HazelJennings, #WendyToye, #JohnLewis, #EdwardCrowther, #DouglasWard, #AlanCoad, #WilliamGrant.
Also featuring the #BBCTelevisionOrchestra.
Producer: #StephenThomas.

ON THE TWELFTH DAY (1955) #WendyToye directs and stars in the fabled short, screened by the BBC for Christmas 1958, 1959 and 1961. I'm watching it as a special feature on the
@studiocanal.co.uk disc of THE TECKMAN MYSTERY (1954). For more on the film wymark.org.uk/toye.html