→ When John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television set in 1926, a theatre impresario was so worried about the impact on the West End that he offered the scientist £1,000 to throw his de

A HUNDRED YEARS ago on 26 January 1926, in an attic room in London’s Soho (more famous for ladies of the night than technological breakthroughs), a Scottish engineer gave the first public display of p

In 1970, I worked for the first and only time with Peter Bowles in The Ambassador, part of a TV series called Happy Ever After – no, no, not the comedy with Terry Scott and June Whitfield – but a dram

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Director CATHERINE ABBOTT on her film celebrating the life and work of the late, great comedian Victoria Wood

John Wyver discusses the difficulties and dangers of television filming during the early days of the medium