Ellie Groom
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 Jan
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Also in the podcast... What John Logie Baird achieved, what he managed to do with those demonstrations, is proof that it was possible.
When I think about what John Logie Baird achieved with those first demonstrations to a select gathering of engineers and a Times journalist in Frisch Street, what he managed to do with those demonstrations is prove that it was possible.
Something that seemed like science fiction.
And television went from that experience.
small demonstration to just 11 years later came the televising of the procession of George VI.
And that in itself was only a year after the BBC started its British television service.
So when you think about like the trajectory of growth in technology, but also in just kind of viewership and kind of it becoming a part of people's homes and a television set suddenly becoming a part of everyone's living room.
It's astonishing how quickly it grew.
And now here we are.
From my work at the BFI National Archive, and we hold the National Television Archive, so we have decades and decades worth of TV recordings in all different size and scales and formats.
things like the Queen's Coronation, and it just shows that TV is truly a gathering place.
It's always been something for people to come together and to debate, to enjoy.
People say that TV is a passive medium, and that's something I fundamentally disagree with.
It is a social medium, it is an emotional medium, and it is something that's very important to people.
It's such a deeply embedded bit of our lives.
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