→ 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

1926 JOHN LOGIE BAIRD DEMONSTRATES TELEVISION From his ...

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

Three women share their experiences of being a TV and film extra

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