'The Building of the Bomb' (BBC TV)
MS. Eng. misc. b. 219/D.23
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Description
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Title
'The Building of the Bomb' (BBC TV)
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. misc. b. 219/D.23
Summary
Peierls recorded an interview for the producer (Robert Reid) of this programme, which was screened in March 1965. Although the interview was not used in the programme, Peierls was disturbed by inaccuracies and distortions in the final version, and took up the matter with the producer, the then Director-General of the BBC, Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, and with several of his own scientific colleagues in the USA. Extensive correspondence, script of the programme. (See also MS. Eng. misc. b. 202/C.19.)
When the programme was screened for a second time, unchanged, in August 1975, Peierls wrote to the Chairman, Sir Michael Swann, and initiated correspondence in The Times.
Date
1964-1966, 1975
Language
English
Physical extent
1 file
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Collection contents
Correspondence and papers of Sir Rudolf (Ernst) Peierls
Publications, broadcasts, reports
Broadcasting and television
'The Building of the Bomb' (BBC TV)
