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The BBC once made the arts ‘utterly central’ to television – 100 years later they’re almost invisible

On the evening of January 26 1926, members of the Royal Institution and other guests climbed three flights of draughty stairs to a tiny workshop in Soho’s Frith Street. They were there to witness the first public presentation of what inventor John Logie Baird called “true television”. A hundred years…

The Conversation · Jan 26

A century ago, John Logie Baird achieved a landmark moment in television history. The viewers weren’t convinced

In 1926, the West End of London offered a dazzling range of evening entertainment. Choices included watching Fred Astaire and his sister Adele on stage at the old Empire theatre in Lady, Be Good!, or experiencing The Big Parade silent movie at the Tivoli on the Strand with a full…

The Conversation · Jan 23

From Attenborough’s gorilla mayhem to TV’s first gay kiss: the 100 biggest moments from a century of television

The moon landing! Royal weddings! Janet Jackson’s $550,000 nipple! As television turns 100, we charts its journey from terrifyingly dangerous to the thing that unites us

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23

Question Time: Who's on tonight as Ash Sarkar and Nick Ferrari set to face-off

TONIGHT'S edition of Question Time on the BBC will be broadcast live from Bexhill-on-Sea, down in South East England – where John Logie Baird…

The National (Scotland) · May 11, 2023

Grandson of John Logie Baird visits Helensburgh, as preparations to mark 100 years of TV stepped up

Iain Logie Baird, who was brought up in Canada but now lives in Yorkshire, visited his grandfather’s hometown as part of a project celebrating the invention of the television.

Daily Record · Feb 8, 2023

The BBC centenary: The most memorable moments in the broadcaster’s history

The BBC will ring in its centenary in November this year with a packed-out schedule

Evening Standard · Oct 18, 2022

100 years of the BBC – the first live FA Cup final and the dawn of true crime

Our series on the most defining moments of the BBC kicks off in the 1920s with a Churchill broadside, quadrant-based football commentary and a mid-broadcast collapse

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2022

Calling Scotland’s greatest inventor: Alexander Graham Bell

THIS week sees the centenary of the death of the man who has a fair claim to be remembered as Scotland’s greatest inventor.

The National (Scotland) · Jul 31, 2022