Jacob Bronowski, the BBC, and MI5. My latest Substack open.substack.com/pub/davidhen...

Bronowski Beat

Jacob Bronowski's epic 1973 TV series 'The Ascent of Man', a troubled broadcasting career, and MI5 interference in the BBC

I too loved the series and book as a nerdy teen.

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I really liked Dr Bronowski's considered delivery. I caught "The Ascent of Man" as a teenager, by mistake, thanks to the lack of choice on TV at the time. I was hooked.

Fascinating! In case of interest, we spoke to Lisa Jardine in 2016 about her father’s friendship with Leo Szilard and the subject of Knowledge and Certainty came up: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, HG and the H-Bomb

Samira Ahmed explores the role of HG Wells in the creation of the nuclear bomb.

A kind of preview/taster of a forthcoming BBC Radio 4 documentary this Saturday, produced by Martin Williams and presented by Frances Stonor Saunders

Excellent. I wonder if he and John Arlott ever crossed paths? I think they'd have got on famously. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, John Arlott: Cricket's Radical Voice

Mark Whitaker investigates the life of the cricket commentator and political campaigner.