BRACERS Record Detail for 57578

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Collection code
RA3
Recent acquisition no.
1021B
Source if not BR
BBC Written Archives
Recipient(s)
BBC
Waller, Robert
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1947/04/25
Form of letter
TLS(X)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
LDH
Notes and topics

BR does not like to be described as a "philosophical atheist".

He will send the script at least a week before May 20.

Transcription

BR TO BBC / ROBERT WALLER, 25 APR. 1947
BRACERS 57578. TLS(X). BBC Written Archives
Proofread by K. Blackwell


<letterhead>
27 Dorset House
Gloucester Place
N.W.1.
25th April, 1947.

Robert Waller, Esq.,
Home Talks Department,
B.B.C.,
Broadcasting House,
London, W.1.

Dear Mr. Waller,

Thank you for your letter; I have noted the points contained in it. I should not like to be described as a “philosophical atheist”, which is a little too definite. I think perhaps “agnostic and rationalista philosopher”, or simply “agnostic and rationalist”.b

I will let you have the script1 at least a week before the 20th May.

What time would you wish me to reach the B.B.C. on May 20th? I presume there will be some technical preliminaries before the broadcast begins.

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Russell.

  • 1

    script Of “The Faith of a Rationalist”. See record 57574.

Textual Notes

  • a

    rationalist replaced by hand rational

  • b

    rationalist replaced by hand rationalistic

Publication
Re B&R C47.08
Permission
Everyone
Transcription Public Access
Yes
Record no.
57578
Record created
Jun 02, 2014
Record last modified
Jun 23, 2025
Created/last modified by
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