No lights, no camera: UK TV producers face equipment shortage Film and television industry struggles with surge in demand for high-end shows fuelled by lockdown binge viewing The Guardian by  Jim Waterson Media editor Sun 13 Jun 2021

The listings for the first ever day of TV looked VERY different from today's Television launched 80 years ago today – and Radio Times carried the very first schedules... The Radio Times By  By   Susanna Lazarus 2 November 2016

Maggie Smith interview for My Old Lady: 'If you have been around long enough you are an icon' More famous than ever thanks to Downton Abbey, the 79-year-old actress tells Elizabeth Grice why she keeps going By Elizabeth Grice 08 Nov 2014 The Telegraph

England 'divided into readers and watchers' England is suffering from a "worrying cultural divide" with poor adults much less likely to read books than their richer neighbours, a report says. By Hannah Richardson -  BBC News education reporter  

Maggie Smith on playing Shakespeare, doing films and more recently television ( Downton Abbey )

First minutes of the new television service in the UK. Novermber 2nd, 1982.

A history of television, the technology that seduced the world – and me Andrew Anthony reflects on the small box that made a big impact, and asks where TV is taking us next