Helen Wheatley (she/her)
Academic Director of Warwick Institute of Engagement, Professor of Film and Television, Co-Founder of the Centre for Television Histories and mum of three teenagers and three cats
- Thanks for sharing, @illuminations.bsky.social 😊
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- Friends in/near London. I've been invited to talk about my latest book at Goldsmiths in a couple of weeks time. It would be lovely to see some friendly faces if you're around. All welcome. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
- @illuminations.bsky.social revealing the identity of The Scanner (at last!) As ever, impeccable historical research from my friend and colleague John Wyver
- Time to get your Screen proposals submitted. Hope to see you there!
- The fascinating story of Britain’s first all Black cabaret programme for TV
- Has anyone seen any of Michael Ingrams’ documentary series ‘Look in on London’ (A-R, 1956). The two opening episodes (on street cleaners and London’s homeless population’) were shown as part of a fascinating sounding season called ‘Captive Cinema’ at the NFT
- Truly an ambitious early tv ballet performance including cutaways to real swans on the Alexandra Palace lake! @illuminations.bsky.social - surprised they didn’t bring them into the studio (I love the story of the parrot who travelled by taxi from London Zoo to Ally Pally around the same time 😂)
- Thank you so much John - this is exactly the thing I was after.
- Can anyone recommend any really good writing on the aesthetics/appreciation of the post-industrial landscape, particularly (though not necessarily confined to) the UK? @illuminations.bsky.social - I feel like this might be something you could help with? New field for me - would like some guidance!
- What a wonderful OTD today - this gives a little glimpse into the richness of @illuminations.bsky.social new work on the early history of British television
- Today’s OTD is the story of a popular and critical success in early British television history from @illuminations.bsky.social
- Hollywood royalty in today’s OTD in early British television history by @illuminations.bsky.social
- Many thanks for resharing this @deathstudiespod.bsky.social - it was such an honour to talk to you!
- I missed this yesterday. John Wyver ( @illuminations.bsky.social) making the critical jump from Alison Light’s between the wars “literature of convalescence” and the adaptation of an Agatha Christie story by the BBC in 1938
- Today’s OTD in early British TV history post from @illuminations.bsky.social is a St Andrew’s Day extravaganza from 1932!
- Fast dialogue, slow shot assemblage: fascinating critical reconstruction of a 1937 broadcast of Cymbeline by @illuminations.bsky.social this morning
- Today’s OTD in early British television is a fascinating tale of a Birmingham based precursor to the RSC and the broadcast of Shakespeare plays and plays about Shakespeare. John Wyver shows us what we can learn about early tv drama without extant recordings
- No SCMS for me this year - a first time rejectee though it seems I am in esteemed company. On the other hand, very much looking forward to Screen where I’m delivering the keynote this year - hope to see folks in Glasgow though a shame it’s not Chicago too!
- These posts from @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social are more than heartbreaking. 19 years old. Shot after spending over a year in that hellhole. Other posts document the lives of children murdered on arrival at the camp. We really must never forget.
- This makes me excited for John Wyver’s new book - his detailed history of early television is going to challenge so many of our critical assumptions about that history. Also, can we please go back to calling TV viewers ‘lookers in’?
- An unusually empty weekend due to a nasty lurgy has meant y’day I watched (& loved) all of Bad Sisters & today I have been pottering around the kitchen (my teenage nursemaids have not manage to tidy as they go 🙄), making soup, & listening to this brilliant podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
- Absolutely fascinating thread about the BBC’s Picture Page. The variety of the guests - from the last quill pen maker in England to Una Marson, a Black feminist, activist and journalist from Jamaica living and working in the UK - tells us a great deal about prewar television in the UK
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- A long interview with Beth and Renske about my recent book - thanks to @deathstudiespod.bsky.social for sharing again over here 😊
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- John Wyver once again posting a fascinating thread on early British television history - emigre performers, well paid magicians and a meeting of the ‘high’ and ‘low’ arts
- Thanks to @saulhewish.bsky.social for sharing this. While says this is true of prisons, I think a lot of this also applies to universities and their engagement departments
