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- 11 August 1970-21 March 1973 (Creation)
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1 file
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Comprises correspondence, mainly with Peter Kaye (News and Public Affairs Director, KPBS [earlier KEBS] Television, San Diego) and others at KPBS, on arrangements and other practical matters relating to 'Jacob Bronowski: 20th Century Man' television series.
Also includes: press releases and press cuttings about the programmes; correspondence about prints of the films and audio tape recordings from 'The Face of Violence' at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego [used in programme 3 'A View of the Arts']; letters from Dr James Edmonds Jr. (Physics department, United States International University, California Western Campus) and [Jerzy] Neyman (University of California, Berkeley) on appreciation of the programmes; a list of [people to post transcripts of the television programmes to, or to notify of the programmes]; correspondence requesting transcriptions of the programmes, mainly for educational purposes; and correspondence with Swedish Import Broadcast requesting permission to broadcast one of the programmes (granted).