Features
Shaw Taylor
Meet ATV’s Shaw Taylor, former actor, continuity announcer and now host of ‘Pencil and Paper’ in 1962
What do women want from TV?
In a wrenching break with the established order of things, the TVTimes in 1956 asks what women really want from television. Don’t worry, though: nobody listened
Czechoslovakia – a distraction?
Did the BBC’s External Services help, hinder or just inform the revolution in Prague in 1968?
Pirate radios: the storm is about to break
It’s 1966 and the net is drawing in on the off-shore radio stations around Britain…
Oracle – Broadcasting the Written Word
The IBA introduces its experimental ‘Oracle’ service in the early 1970s
The BBC since 1958
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene’s valedictory message to the BBC and the audience after he was pushed out as Director-General in late 1968
Independent Television in 1959
Our new microsite takes a snapshot of ITV as it stood in the middle of 1959
Peyton Place… 76 acres of real life
An in-depth look at the people behind the scenes at hit soap opera Peyton Place in 1967
Where is TV’s ‘Nouvelle vague’?
Can Associated-Rediffusion do television plays for television? Nobody else seems to be doing so, writes Peter Graham Scott in 1961
Meet Horace Low…
Introducing Horace Low, technical store keeper at Alpha Studios in Birmingham in 1965
A Golden Hour
ATV responds to accusation that their programming is too light with a heavy hour of peak-time arts in 1963
Tonight’s BBCtv… and S4C… in 1986
A look at what was on BBC Television and S4C on Friday 25 April 1986
Tonight’s TVS… in 1984
A look at what was on TVS in the south and south-east on Wednesday 21 March 1984
► Quick march
On retransmission stations of the internet, this is the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
► Twist and shouting
On 22 September 1975, Eamonn Andrews on the Thames ‘Today’ programme hosts a bad-tempered debate about ITV
► Goodbye to the Light Programme
Music Through Midnight with David Hamilton sees the BBC Light Programme off into history
✎ Made in Yorkshire
A Kickstarter campaign is launched to fund a documentary about YTV
✎ Sir Ken Dodd 1927-2018
Looking back at the life of Liverpool funnyman Ken Dodd
✎ Sit down, Nigel Barton
Dirty Feed has a great examination of the changes between the script and the production of 1965 Dennis Potter’s ‘Stand Up, Nigel Barton’ play