#Barry Learoyd

[missanthropicprinciple]

When I was doing research for my MA thesis in 2020, I discovered that there was a production of The Time Machine in 1949 starring Russell Napier. As is was broadcast live and not recorded it is now lost. This spring (2022), new images related to this lost BBC production surfaced. The above is one of several photos from a copy of J.B. Priestley’s Man and Time, originally published in 1964. The model maker was Barry Learoyd, and the photographer, Ken Coton. When asked, Coton said he “took the pictures for Priestley’s Man And Time when I was a caption writer at Aldus Books in Fitzroy Square in London. I had started taking pictures around the offices and eventually the art boys asked me to help out with pictures they wanted.” Although he has “no knowledge of the model, where it came from, or where it is. I just took it home, photographed it and took it back!” he added, “the hand in the picture is my Dad’s!”