Episode 2: An untimely death would change the course of Roy Winsor’s career and the daytime serial forever… Agnes Eckhardt and John Hess would find themselves caught up in the swirl of the new medium…and the Queen of Serials, Irna Phillips, would begin a crusade in the world of serial which would last for years…

Serial History uses the best archives, letters, notes, scripts, etc. to piece together the real story of the creation of the first television soap operas. From The Guiding Light to Search for Tomorrow to Love of Life, The First Hundred Years, As the World Turns and more, Serial History places their creation stories on one timeline to tell the complete story of television soap operas for the very first time. Meet Irna Phillips, John Hess, Roy Winsor, Agnes Nixon, David Lesan, and more people who created the first television soap operas.

Serial History is created, written, and executive produced by Andrew Pemberton-Fowler. Brett Emanuel and Raul Guerrero, Jr. produce the series. Serial History is an AIOTK Air production in association with Pemberton Studios.

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Serial History: EP 2 "Roy, Irna, Agnes, John, Irving, Mary, Biow…and their Search for Happiness"

This week, Talking TV heads back from Cannes to report on the Mip TV market and the lucrative search for weird and wonderful global formats. 

NBC reality chief Paul Telegdy discusses the search for the next Voice and ITV Studios formats boss Mike Beale discusses the return of the gameshow. 

Broadcast international editor Manori Ravindran discusses the hottest shows and trends at the event, including the continued success of naked survival formats and a growing number of shows featuring badly behaved OAPs. 

Elsewhere, Bafta-winning director Kieran Evans joins us in the studio to discuss Escape From History, a documentary about the Manic Street Preachers for Sky Arts’ new rock documentary strand. 

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This week, Talking TV is heading to Lock Keeper’s cottages as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Big Breakfast, which launched on 28 September 1992. 

Creator Charlie Parsons and producers Duncan Gray, Lisa Clark and Paul Sandler join us in Maple Street Studios to discuss how a company that made anarchic Friday night entertainment format The Word started making ten hours of breakfast telly a week on Channel 4. 

The group discuss how they pulled it off, the production process and explain the relationship with stars including Chris Evans, Gaby Roslin and Paula Yates as well as some of the craziest stories behind the show.

Talking TV #101:  How The Big Breakfast Was Made

The $450m sale of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was surrounded by a the near constant repetition of the erroneous idea that there are doubts about the work's authenticity. From news reports to essays by Contemporary art critics miffed at the growing spectacle, writers ignored the consensus among scholars and scientific researchers that the work is the lost work of the Renaissance master.

In this podcast, Bendor Grosvenor, an Old Master dealer credited with numerous 'sleeper' finds and the host of "Britain's Lost Masterpieces," discusses the 2011 National Gallery show on Leonardo that admitted the Salvator Mundi into the canon of the few recognized works by the artist.

Grosvenor also addresses the tone of the Old Masters market, his hopes that this sale will remind art collectors of the enduring popularity of Old Master paintings and spur more attention to the field.

Bendor Grosvenor on Leonardo's Salvator Mundi

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