The Sunday dozen

John Wyver writes: I have started a nearly month-long holiday in France, and after three days’ driving have arrived at the small town of Simiane-la-Rotonde in the Luberon. Which is glorious, and which I will send an occasional update from over the coming days, while also continuing to make the final preparations for The Cultures of Early Television conference in early July, registration for which is open here. Posts will continue but with slightly dodgy connectivity they may be a little late, like this week’s miscellany of articles and audio that have engaged me over the past week. And the link to this week’s header image, which is my photo of Henry Moore’s Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 3, sited at the Brandon Estate in Lambeth, is the second of the Municipal Dreams blog posts highlighted below. • Nine Days in May: an excellent History of the BBC contribution by David Hendy about the pre-Corporation Company during the General Strike that began on 2 May 1926. As he writes, The public…