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- 24 February 1966-22 October 1974 (Creation)
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1 file
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Mainly consists of correspondence, with Gerald Newman and Robert Chesterman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), on Bronowski recording talks for broadcast on CBC. Talks include: 'The Anatomy of Violence' (1966, repeated 1972 and 1974) based on 'The Face of Violence' book; 'The Discovery of Self' (1967); 'The Reach of the Imagination' (1967, repeated 1971); 'Science is Human', 'The Values of Science' and 'The Fulfillment of Man' (all 1969); 'The Imaginative Mind in Science' and 'The Imaginative Mind in Art' (1968).
Also contains correspondence on Bronowski selecting excerpts from 'The Man in the Moone' by Francis Godwin (1638) for broadcast on CBC and on contributing to a programme on 'Science and Conscience' (1968), as well as letters written to Bronowski in response to hearing the broadcasts on CBC.
Includes a catalogue of recordings by the CBC with 'Chance and Necessity' by Jacques Monod highlighted, and poems by Stella Falk (Humanist Fellowship of Montreal).