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The material consists of correspondence between the British Broadcasting Corporation and Edward Appleton, dated 1946-1947, during the period of the Giacobinids meteor showers [now known as the October Draconids]. It includes graphs.

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The material consists of correspondence from H.L. Kirke to Edward Appleton, dated 1940, relating to the propogation of short waves (for the B.B.C.); and from K. Kreielsheimer to Appleton, dated 1947.

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Correspondence between the British Broadcasting Corporation and Edward Appleton. The material consists of correspondence and data from BBC radio engineers and stations with Appleton on the 'hissing phenomenon’, dated 1942, 1945-1946 and including data from 1937-1941.

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Correspondence from T.W. Bennington to Edward Appleton, dated 1958-1959. The material relates to various research projects, and to accompany data in Coll-37/E.8, dated 1957-1961, sent by the B.B.C. Research Department.

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of letters and postcards to close friends John Freeman and John Arlott, as well as analyses of religious questions in poetry. There are circa 20 autograph letters and 10 signed letters to Freeman, 1922-1927, and circa 100 autograph letters to Arlott from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection also includes BBC typescript broadcasts on The search for flowers, Some rare flowers of the west, ...

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The material consists of correspondence with Martin Rivers Pollock regarding arrangements, contract and other items relating to 'Molecular Biology', a BBC Radio programme for the Open University Science Foundation Course, 1971.

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Correspondence to Edward Appleton from H.V. Griffiths (B.B.C.), W.J.G. Beynon, H.S.W. Massey, A.C.B. Lovell and M. Allan. The material relates to the Russian satellite, Sputnik and is dated October 1957­-November 1957. It Includes 1 page of manuscript notes by Appleton, perhaps for a lecture on the subject.

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Contains two BBC News Scotland reports concerning the Centre for Regenerative Medicine and multiple sclerosis research in Edinburgh.

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Contains correspondence and papers relating to the television and radio programmes in which Waddington appeared. Also present are two copies of a transcript of the 'Towards Tomorrow: Assault on Life' programme (broadcast on BBC1 in December 1967) and various press cuttings.