Comprises correspondence mainly between Josephine Marquand/Gladstone (BBC, programme researcher) and Bronowski, Sylvia Fitzgerald or Kathleen Murray.
Subjects include: updates on research and work being done on locations and content of the television programmes, filming (not featuring Bronowski) for inclusion in the series, discussing content, Bronowski sending scripts to be checked, travel arrangements, Bronowski visiting the BBC in 1971, illustrations and music for use in the programmes, viewing figures and responses to the television programmes, arrangements for replying to letters about the programmes, work done for 'The Ascent of Man' book including on the index, book sales, Jo Gladstone teaching a class about 'The Ascent of Man' at Morley College, and sympathy on Bronowski's death.
Also includes: a photocopy of 'Ninety-fifth Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and its Cultural Influences (to January 1970)'; a booklet on 'Darwin on the Beagle' educational programme compiled and written by Josephine Gladstone (Spring 1974); and correspondence between Sylvia Fitzgerald and the BBC on Josephine Gladstone's salary.