9 December 2023
The 70-year-old actor talks to TVTimes about the character he has lived and loves
2 December 2023
William Hartnell is a much more rounded man than his roles suggest, says the TVTimes
13 November 2023
“I’ve sung with Freddie Sales, gagged with Norman Wisdom, been pinched by Arthur English and kissed by Arthur Askey”
9 October 2023
Meet Judith Chalmers, the busy BBCtv announcing ‘girl’
1 May 2023
Meet Roger England, who spent his life behind the cameras of the most popular ITV programmes
20 March 2023
Meet the man behind the BBC Television Service’s most memorable live shows
8 July 2022
As Richard Baker retires from newsreading in 1982, Ariel looks back at his BBC career
30 June 2022
Meet the man whose laidback style belies his nose for hard news
28 March 2022
Going very much behind the scenes to meet the women who clean the BBCtv studios
3 January 2022
John Edmunds hangs up his newsreader’s tie and gets ready to tread the boards – or not
11 October 2021
Richard Wyn Jones talks to ITV pioneer Roy Hayward, who worked at Aston, Teledu Cymru and Southern
5 July 2021
In France they’re chasing announcers down the street asking for their hand in marriage. In Britain? Not quite.
15 March 2021
Want to look around Granada’s studios in 1960? Paul Rycroft will show you the sights
20 January 2021
London Weekend’s Alec Taylor would like to try new things in 1975
13 January 2021
A change in policy at A-R and ATV as they bring their announcers into view
14 October 2020
60 men battle the elements to bring BBCtv to the north of England in 1951
6 June 2020
A splendid 1972 rant from Westward’s Peter Cadbury on who should pay for ITV-2
18 April 2020
BBCtv continuity announcer, reporter, actress and director Jacqueline Mackenzie tells us how to land – and keep – a role in television in 1958
29 August 2019
Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who is getting scarier, says the Daily Express in 1971
27 February 2019
Meet David Geary, Anglia’s new newsreader in 1973
8 November 2018
A 1952 discussion of where and when the word “television” was coined
17 October 2018
Meet Muriel Young and Daphne Anderson, announcers for Associated-Rediffusion and ABC (aka ATV) in 1955
3 August 2018
The [now-Royal] Television Society attends the opening of a pub commemorating the developer of TV
2 July 2018
The Daily Mirror watches David Frost prepare for his Rediffusion show in 1967
12 April 2018
Can Westward discover the next group to follow in the footsteps of The Beatles in 1964?
15 March 2018
The TVTimes meets Miss Rosalyn of Anglia’s The Romper Room in 1967
13 March 2018
Granada stars working on a building site are imagined in this twaddle from the TVTimes in 1958
13 February 2018
Fluffing of foreign words leads KDKA to train announcers for the first time in 1922
8 February 2018
About Anglia’s new reporter, Joan Shenton, talks to the TVTimes in 1966
14 November 2017
Roberta Leigh explains the genesis of ABC’s new puppet show to the TVTimes in 1959
19 September 2017
A look at how Doris Hare rose to fame from 1971
6 September 2017
Republished upon his death on 6 September 2017 aged 80: The Radio Times in 1968 speaks to ‘Look North’ presenter Mike Neville
29 August 2017
Granada and the TVTimes in 1960 look at what became of the baby from A Diary for Timothy
18 July 2017
Meet television’s first on-screen teacher, appearing on our screens in 1957
29 June 2017
An interview from 2001 with Teledu Cymru continuity announcer and actress Iris Jones, republished upon her death on 29 June 2017
2 May 2017
The Radio Times in 1968 speaks to Rugby League commentator Eddie Waring
1 May 2017
A 1955 interview with Richard Hearne, once one of Britain’s biggest TV stars and now all but forgotten
25 April 2017
The Radio Times in 1969 speaks to ‘It’s Saturday’ presenter Bill Grundy
27 March 2017
The TVTimes in 1971 interviews 29-year-old LWT producer Humphrey Barclay