Abstract and Script for a Radio Broadcast [1957]

RUSSELL ATTACHED A good deal of importance to Paper 57b, which was broadcast on the General Overseas Service of the BBC on 18 April 1957 and in translation on the German Service on 5 May. Not only was the script prepared at Russell’s own suggestion, but he also lobbied for its rebroadcast on the BBC’s Home Service. On 13 February Gordon Mosley, the head of overseas talks and features, had reminded Russell about the possibility of his recording something-either a series or a single talk-on “the contemporary crisis in world developments”. While expressing his doubts about this plan, Russell countered with a slightly different idea.