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- 1956-1959 (Creation)
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Contains: a full script and an annotated script "as broadcast" for 'Personal Choice' radio programme (BBC Home Service, May-Jun 1958); an annotated typescript of 'Take over the Future' (23 Apr 1958) for publication in Punch magazine (May 1958); a typescript book review of 'Sonst Stünde Die Welt Still' by Heinz Gartmann (21 Jan 1958) for publication by Hodder and Stoughton (Feb 1958); 2 typescripts of 'Top Secret' (29 Oct 1957) on American and Russian science, annotated as for News Chronicle but not published; a typescript book review of 'William Blake, the politics of vision' by Mark Schorer (2 Oct 1959); 2 press cuttings of 'Christmas Book Supplement - 1: Blake the Radical' (New Statesman, 30 Nov 1957); a typescript of an 'Introduction' about William Blake; an annotated typescript of a joint book review of 'Symbol and Image in William Blake' by George Wingfield Digby and 'The Complete Writings of William Blake with all the variant readings' edited by Geoffrey Keynes for 'The Listener' (Nov 1957); an annotated typescript of 'The Mystical Quest of William Blake'; an annotated typescript and later typescript of 'summary of Dr J Bronowski's speech at the William Blake bicentenary celebrations annual dinner, Wednesday, 28th November' (1956); a photocopy of an article on 'The Years of Discovery' (Daily Telegraph, 27 Aug 1956) with annotated typescript notes on the discovery of Positron, splitting the atom and the discovery of the neutron.
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The Bronowski Collection contains an audio recording of 'Personal Choice' (reference Bronowski 13/2/7).