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Radio Broadcasting

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 174 Collections and/or Records:

3 notes relating to radio noise from the stars and mesons, c. 1946

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/D.26
Scope and Contents

The material consists of 'Radio Noise from the Stars', an 11 page manuscript draft for a popular talk or broadcast, no date, c. 1946; a 3 page typescript note on similar subject; and a 3 page note on mesons, this one probably not by Edward Appleton.

Dates: c. 1946

3 page typescript, 'Report on reception of Alexandra Palace in South Africa', 1950

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.287
Scope and Contents

3 page typescript, 'Report on reception of Alexandra Palace in South Africa'. Signed by T.W. Bennington (B.B.C.), dated July 1950.

Dates: 1950

4 notes and drafts by Edward Appleton, 1941 and no date

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/D.19
Scope and Contents

The material consists of: 'Scientific research and industrial progress', a typescript draft for article in Country Life Export Number, Autumn 1941; 'Science and illumination', a note for broadcasting, no date; 'Seeing the invisible', a 2 page note on the electron microscope; and 3 pages of manuscript notes for a school prize giving.

Dates: 1941 and no date

4 notes by Edward Appleton for speeches, talks or broadcasts , 1943 and no date

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/D.20
Scope and Contents

The material consists of the following notes by Edward Appleton: a speech given at the opening of laboratories of the British Cast Iron Research Association, 3 pages, dated 1943; a speech given at a meeting of the Architectural Institute, 4 pages, no date; a draft for a broadcast talk on science and industry, 6 pages, no date; and 1 page of notes for a talk on ‘Science and Government'.

Dates: 1943 and no date

4 notes for talks and broadcasts by Edward Appleton, c. 1945 and no date

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/D.24
Scope and Contents

The material consists of the following notes for talks and broadcasts by Edward Appleton: 'How radiolocation works', a draft and script of a radio broadcast, dated August 1945; 'Recent radio progress', a 2 page talk on radiolocation, no date; a 2 page untitled talk on wartime advances in science, 1945; and 'British Science in war and peace', a draft, perhaps for broadcast, c. 1945.

Dates: c. 1945 and no date

9 page typescript 'Final draft' of Pollock's contribution, 1971

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/F/2/F.114
Scope and Contents

The material consists of a 9 page typescript 'Final draft' of Martin Rivers Pollock's contribution 'Molecular Biology', a BBC Radio programme for the Open University Science Foundation Course, 1971.

Dates: 1971

12 page duplicated typescript transcript, 1971

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/F/2/F.115
Scope and Content

The material consists of a 12 page duplicated typescript transcript of Martin Rivers Pollock's contribution to 'Molecular Biology', a BBC Radio programme for the Open University Science Foundation Course, 1971. Pages 1-5 record the discussion preceding Pollock's talk, involving R. Jones, W.L. Bragg and J.C. Kendrew.

Dates: 1971

12 page duplicated typescript transcript, 1971

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/F/2/F.116
Scope and Content

The material consists of a 12 page duplicated typescript transcript from 'Molecular Biology', a BBC Radio programme for the Open University Science Foundation Course, 1971. The transcript records the discussion between W.L. Bragg and J.C. Kendrew.

Dates: 1971

1936-1944 file, 1936-1944

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/7
Scope and Contents

1936-1944 file consists of:


  1. letters, newscuttings and related items
Dates: 1936-1944

A Child is Born, 1949

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/6/2
Scope and Contents

Christmas broadcast by John Baillie on the theme of Christmas.

Dates: 1949