People

Meet the man behind the BBC Television Service’s most memorable live shows

Journalist and newscaster David Cass talks about life at ITN

As Richard Baker retires from newsreading in 1982, Ariel looks back at his BBC career

Meet the man whose laidback style belies his nose for hard news

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

An interview with the BBC continuity announcer McDonald Hobley

John Edmunds hangs up his newsreader’s tie and gets ready to tread the boards – or not

Richard Wyn Jones talks to ITV pioneer Roy Hayward, who worked at Aston, Teledu Cymru and Southern

In France they’re chasing announcers down the street asking for their hand in marriage. In Britain? Not quite.

Want to look around Granada’s studios in 1960? Paul Rycroft will show you the sights

London Weekend’s Alec Taylor would like to try new things in 1975

A change in policy at A-R and ATV as they bring their announcers into view

60 men battle the elements to bring BBCtv to the north of England in 1951

A splendid 1972 rant from Westward’s Peter Cadbury on who should pay for ITV-2

BBCtv continuity announcer, reporter, actress and director Jacqueline Mackenzie tells us how to land – and keep – a role in television in 1958

Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who is getting scarier, says the Daily Express in 1971

Meet David Geary, Anglia’s new newsreader in 1973

A 1952 discussion of where and when the word “television” was coined

Meet Muriel Young and Daphne Anderson, announcers for Associated-Rediffusion and ABC (aka ATV) in 1955

The [now-Royal] Television Society attends the opening of a pub commemorating the developer of TV

The Daily Mirror watches David Frost prepare for his Rediffusion show in 1967

Can Westward discover the next group to follow in the footsteps of The Beatles in 1964?

The TVTimes meets Miss Rosalyn of Anglia’s The Romper Room in 1967

Granada stars working on a building site are imagined in this twaddle from the TVTimes in 1958

Fluffing of foreign words leads KDKA to train announcers for the first time in 1922

About Anglia’s new reporter, Joan Shenton, talks to the TVTimes in 1966

Roberta Leigh explains the genesis of ABC’s new puppet show to the TVTimes in 1959

A look at how Doris Hare rose to fame from 1971

Meet the boy who won Granada’s Criss Cross Quiz in 1959

Republished upon his death on 6 September 2017 aged 80: The Radio Times in 1968 speaks to ‘Look North’ presenter Mike Neville

Granada and the TVTimes in 1960 look at what became of the baby from A Diary for Timothy

Meet television’s first on-screen teacher, appearing on our screens in 1957

An interview from 2001 with Teledu Cymru continuity announcer and actress Iris Jones, republished upon her death on 29 June 2017

The Radio Times in 1968 speaks to Rugby League commentator Eddie Waring

A 1955 interview with Richard Hearne, once one of Britain’s biggest TV stars and now all but forgotten

The Radio Times in 1969 speaks to ‘It’s Saturday’ presenter Bill Grundy

The TVTimes in 1971 interviews 29-year-old LWT producer Humphrey Barclay

A quick profile of BBCtv relief announcer Avis Scott from 1955

TVTimes in 1969 profiles Ron Davies – a cameraman for ITN and Harlech who uses a wheelchair

TVTimes profiles Tommy Cooper in 1956

A limited budget sends Bernard Braden rummaging through wardrobe in 1963

BBC Producer Stephen McCormack reveals what has gone on in making the London Town and About Britain programmes in 1955

Bernard Delfont explains how the viewers, not the producers, chose the stars in 1963

Jerry Allen talks about appearing on 1,600 editions of ATV’s ‘Lunch Box’ in 1963

Spare a thought for the men keeping the Lichfield transmitter on air at Christmas in 1964