TV90

Today marks the 90th anniversary of BBC Television, with the service having been officially launched from Alexandra Palace in London on the 2nd of November 1936. It is, of course, an anniversary of which I have been well aware for a while - and has given me the opportunity to tell a story I have been looking forward to having the chance to tell for many months.Early this year I read and very much enjoyed Magic Rays of Light by John Wyver, an excellent new book telling the story of British television from its earliest experimental days, through to the launching of the BBC service, and its shutting down for the duration of the war in September 1939. If you're interested, you can read my review of the book on Goodreads here.There was obviously a huge amount of information in the book which was completely new to me - including the story with which John chose to open it. This was the story of George Boar, a pre-war television viewer who was both ordinary and extraordinary. Ordinary because…

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