BR TO BBC / TREVOR BLEWITT, 9 FEB. 1945
BRACERS 57463. ALS(X). BBC Written Archives
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Grosvenor Lodge, Babraham Rd.,
Cambridge
9.2.45

Dear Mr. Blewitt

Thank you for your letter. I should be quite willing to do a broadcast such as you suggest,1 and to talk it over with Mr. George Barnes. If he would like to fix a time by telephone, my number is

Cambridge 87152.

I am glad my last talk won commendations.2

Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell.

• 1

  do a broadcast such as you suggest The topic was “What is freedom?”. It did not become a broadcast.

• 2

  won commendationsThe Manchester Guardian called the “Where Do We Go Now?” broadcast “outstanding” (24 Jan. 1945, p. 6); “a disinterested mind of the first quality using radio to lead opinion” (New Chronicle, 13 Jan. 1945).