New Writings

Magic Rays of Light with John Wyver

John Wyver’s book looks back to the earliest days of TV broadcasting in the UK and identifies the obstacles in documenting this embryonic period in broadcasting history.

  • Total running time 90min

Magic Rays of Light (Bloomsbury) is a cultural history of television in Britain before the Second World War. John Wyver argues that, contrary to popular memory, this television was extensive, complex and innovative, as well as intimately entangled with the cinema, theatre, music and dance of the time. John Wyver will be in conversation with Lisa Kerrigan, Senior Curator Television, BFI National Archive.

Tickets £6.50.

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