John Wyver writes: Technical troubles meant that I missed posting last weekend – apologies. But I’m back today with another group of articles that have engaged and interested me, along with — as a hommage to the changeable weather of the past few days — John Constable’s wondrous ‘Study of Clouds, 30 September 1822’, photographed at the recent Turner & Constable show at Tate Britain, but now presumably safely back with its guardians, The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. • Television returns: marking the reopening 80 years ago today of the BBC’s Television service from Alexandra Palace on 7 June 1946, Paul Hayes for the History of the BBC website reflects engagingly on the relaunch. This is a story that will also feature in my book about post-war television in Britain, but that is — well, at least four years away. • From YouTube sensation to A24’s youngest director: a remarkable profile by Kyle Buchanan for The New York Times [gift link] of 20-year-old Kane Parsons, the filmmaker…
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