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The Eye of TV

Published 31 August 2023

How a TV camera works

Continental Control Point

Published 13 May 2023

A new control room for live continental broadcasting exchange opens in Broadcasting House

Announcers’ Suite

Published 5 December 2022

The presentation control room and the announcers move from Ally Pally to Lime Grove

Children in Need

Published 18 November 2022

A look back at Children in Need 1982

Europe’s Biggest Film Makers

Published 4 November 2022

BBCtv uses more feet of film each year than Hollywood

Going Places

Published 7 October 2022

The roving eye of the television camera can get anywhere these days, bringing sport and pageantry directly to your home

A to Z of a Play

Published 29 July 2022

The story of a live TV play from script to screen

Champagne Breakfast

Published 1 July 2022

The BBC’s new programme Breakfast Time has launched and the staff newspaper is full of praise

Setting the Scene for TV

Published 11 April 2022

A visit to the Scenery Block – the first part of the new BBC Television Centre

Lime Grove’s ‘Mrs. Mopps’

Published 28 March 2022

Going very much behind the scenes to meet the women who clean the BBCtv studios

Another chance to see… Top of the Pops

Published 3 February 2022

It’s Number One, it’s Top Of The Pops!

BBC Television Builds a New City

Published 31 January 2022

Huw Wheldon takes us around the new Television Centre, under construction in Shepherd’s Bush

How they put sport into Saturday’s Grandstand

Published 29 November 2021

The behind-the-scenes chaos that translates to a professional on-screen programme

Progress in television

Published 25 September 2020

The BBC brings us up to speed on recent developments in television in 1961

How I grew up with ITV

Published 3 September 2018

Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development

Thirty girls with TV secrets

Published 8 December 2016

A fine slice of sexism from 1955

TV canteen

Published 22 June 2015

TV Mirror pays a visit to Lime Grove’s studio canteen in 1954

BBC Infrastructure

Published 1 January 2005

Regional studios and London monoliths

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Friday 29 September 2023