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- 22 February 1963-10 April 1969 (Creation)
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1 file
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Comprises correspondence, mainly on television programmes featuring Bronowski, with employees of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) including Lister Sinclair, Jack Rutherford, William Young, John Reeves, John Livingston and James Murray.
Subjects include: Bronowski visiting Toronto (1963); contributing to a television programme on astronomy called 'Denizens of Space' (c.1963); changes to the script for 'A New Dialogue on Two World Systems' for Canada, recording and broadcasting it on CBC radio (1964); a television programme on Einstein [for 'On the Nature of Things' series] (1964); asking Bronowski to react on camera to a press release about a Chinese nuclear test [project 596, at Lop Nur test site] (1964); an invitation to moderate a discussion on the ethics of science to be recorded for broadcast at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1964); an invitation to participate in a series of programmes for radio on ideas (1967); Bronowski's participation in 3 discussion programmes on 'Science and Conscience' (1968) and the transcripts of the programmes being prepared for publication; 'The Trouble on Campus' television film (c.1969); and considering how to broadcast [the Mellon] lectures [on 'Art as a Mode of Knowledge' on CBC radio].