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Terry Jones archive donated to the BFI
The collection includes Jones’s personal 16mm copies of the Monty Python feature films.
Terry Jones archive donated to the BFI
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Object of the week
Henry VIII and His Six Wives: a costume drawing for the 1970s historical epic
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10 great
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Object of the week
Alan Whicker’s cue cards for interviewing Sean Connery on You Only Live Twice
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Alex Cox on the legacy of Moviedrome, the BBC’s essential cult film slot
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“It’s a blood opera”: on set for Gangs of London season three
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Obituaries
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World TV Day 2024: how archive TV provides a portal to the past
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Archiving Netflix: how and what we preserve from the streamer’s programming
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Obituaries
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Obituaries
Maggie Smith obituary: scene-stealing star who became a national institution
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The night the country didn’t sleep: 40 years of Threads, the BBC’s traumatising TV movie
By George Bass
Interviews
Clio Barnard on directing Sherwood series 2: “The thing that television can do is create a national conversation”
By Lou Thomas
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Starve Acre and its roots in 1970s folk horror: “Stranger things were being made on television at the time, frankly”
By Adam Scovell
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Ghost Stories for Christmas: Mark Gatiss on the enduring appeal of the BBC’s ghostly festive tradition
By Adam Scovell
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The best British TV of 2023, as picked by BFI curators
By Xavier Alexandre Pillai, Josephine Botting and others
Then and now
60 years of Doctor Who: in search of classic Who locations
By Adam Scovell
The NHS at 75
The NHS on the box: in praise of the great British hospital soap
By Mandeep Kaur-Lakhan
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The best British TV of 2022, as picked by BFI curators
By James Bell, Ros Cranston and others
Obituaries
Ron Peck obituary: filmmaker behind Nighthawks, Britain’s first feature set in the gay community
By William Fowler
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40 years of Channel 4: 10 C4 gems currently streaming
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100 BBC TV gamechangers
By Lisa Kerrigan, Nadia Attia and others
10 great
10 great Channel 5 programmes
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BFI appointed exclusive sales agent for the Associated-Rediffusion television catalogue
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50 years of Ghost Stories for Christmas, the BBC’s classic strand of festive terror
By George Bass
Best of 2021
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By Lisa Kerrigan, James Bell and others
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Thunder on Sycamore Street: the rediscovered 1950s TV play about prejudice in suburbia
By Lisa Kerrigan