Articles by Russ J Graham

Tonight’s LWT… in 1981

Published 14 March 2016

A look at what was on LWT on Saturday 14 March 1981

This week’s BBCtv… in 1950

Published 12 March 2016

A look at what was on the BBC Television Service in the week of Sunday 12 March 1950

Tonight’s HTV… in 1989

Published 27 February 2016

A look at what was on HTV on Monday 27 February 1989

✎ Dancing around the maypole

Published 24 February 2016

Kennedy vs Nixon and history vs understanding

Tonight’s BBC radio… in 1938

Published 7 February 2016

A look at what was on the BBC’s radio networks on Monday 7 February 1938

Avengerworld

Published 6 February 2016

A new charity anthology of writing about The Avengers is released today

We broke the code

Published 2 February 2016

I think we now know ‘what’, but not ‘why’

Tonight’s TVS… in 1984

Published 28 January 2016

A look at what was on Television South on Saturday 28 January 1984

Less is more

Published 21 January 2016

Broadcast and basic cable in the US decides how to fight back against Netflix

33 years ago this morning

Published 17 January 2016

BBC Breakfast Time launches

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men

Published 11 January 2016

The late David Bowie makes an early appearance on ‘Tonight’ in 1964

Teletext time travel

Published 7 January 2016

Bringing old teletext pages on VHS back to life

Lego Television Centre

Published 4 January 2016

A TV studio made out of Lego and awesome

Proto-TVS

Published 3 January 2016

Recreating the pre-history of TVS

We’re riding in a wonderland of snow

Published 21 December 2015

The latest slow TV production from BBC Four

Quatermass and the pits

Published 20 December 2015

When is a live show not a live show?

Sinong Doktor

Published 18 December 2015

A man’s lonely crusade to save humanity from possible outer space attacks by Donald Sutherland

Population 51,201

Published 18 December 2015

Showtime trails the 2017 return of the 1990 cult classic ‘Twin Peaks’

Networking

Published 18 December 2015

Coming from Network Distribution in 2016…

Firing on all cylinders

Published 17 December 2015

An open online archive of digitised wax cylinders from the dawn of the 20th century

Behind the scenes at ‘Dangermouse’

Published 16 December 2015

A quick glimpse behind the scenes of the original Cosgrove-Hall ‘Dangermouse’.

Kathy Secker has died

Published 16 December 2015

TTT chief announcer dies at home

Best possible taste

Published 15 December 2015

BBC-4’s biopic gets a repeat showing

Tonight’s Anglia… in 1980

Published 5 December 2015

A look at what was on Anglia on Friday 5 December 1980

Celebrating Redvers

Published 4 December 2015

A report from the funeral of Redvers Kyle

Wales in the Eighties

Published 3 December 2015

BBC Wales looks at the principality in the 1980s – a decade of unemployment, depression and Superted

The World According to Kenny Everett

Published 2 December 2015

ITV offers a look into Ev’s strange world

Andy Pandy To Zebedee

Published 1 December 2015

Archive treats from BBC Four this Christmas

Flippin’ tech

Published 30 November 2015

How to make dots that flip

12 ads of Christmas

Published 29 November 2015

The Guardian’s pick of this year’s Xmas adverts

Looking and Seeing

Published 28 November 2015

The Daily Telegraph have an obituary of Redvers Kyle that concentrates on his time as host of ‘Looking and Seeing’

#ThamesDay

Published 23 November 2015

It’s #ThamesDay across Transdiffusion’s social media channels

Redvers Kyle 1929-2015

Published 19 November 2015

Remembering one of the consummate voices of ITV

Faces of war

Published 5 November 2015

The BBC decides to reveal all when war breaks out

Transdiffusion Television

Published 21 October 2015

Feature length videos from the Transdiffusion archives

The War Game

Published 8 October 2015

The Director-General steps in and bans broadcast of a docudrama

I found my thrill on Beulah Hill

Published 22 September 2015

Reaching for the service area

For the want of a museum

Published 12 September 2015

A British museum of television and radio would be nice

Happy ending

Published 10 September 2015

A forgotten BBC gem

Kenny the kidder

Published 3 September 2015

Probably the greatest maker of radio Britain ever created… especially when the devil got into him

Joy Beverley (1924–2015)

Published 1 September 2015

The eldest of the three Beverley Sisters has died

One BBC

Published 25 August 2015

There’s only one BBC

Beacon car crash

Published 17 August 2015

When a phone-in programme goes disastrously wrong

Come to an end

Published 26 July 2015

TWW’s last ever programme – in full

Tonight’s Anglia TV… in 1980

Published 25 July 2015

What was on Anglia on Friday 25 July 1980

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