BR will travel from Ffestiniog on April 15, but Julian Huxley will likely put him up.

Brains Trust for Tuesdays, 28 May, 4 June and 11 June 1946.

Apparently the broadcasts were live, and the contracts do not mention a pre-recording.

Television Brains Trust for 1/4 hour at Alexandra Palace after sound broadcast on 11 June 1946.

BR agrees to go to Alexandra Palace for a short televised Brains Trust on June 11, 9:45-10 pm. It will increase BR's expenses.

Brains Trust for 28 May 1946. Dinner will be at 6:45 pm in Studio 3e.

A request to broadcast on "Contemporary Thought". The BBC is starting the "Third Programme" on 29 September 1946.

BR cannot undertake anything more in October, but late November or early December would suit him.

He wonders whether the whole would have to be written out beforehand.

Brains Trust for 1 and 22 October, 12 November, and 3 December 1946.

BR declines to speak on "Freedom of Speech in Britain" on the Chinese service—"I have already more work on hand than I know how to get through".

BR agrees to a Third Programme talk on 5 Jan. 1947, and is glad that Kallin does not need to see a script in advance.

There is a reference to BR contributing to broadcasts to India by answering a listener's question on the nature of democracy.

See earlier document .018460, and record 57725 and record 57527.

BR will make revisions and suggests "Empiricist Liberalism" because he does not like the geographical implication of "Western Democracy".

Reminder of Brains Trust on 26 November 1946.

"I have, as a matter of fact, observed since before the recent war, that men of diverse and usually hostile nations, if they adopted this philosophy [of logical analysis], could discuss the most controversial questions calmly and rationally." Script by Dec. 9. (Re Congress of Scientific Philosophy, 1935.)

BR suggests "Science and Democracy" as the title and inquires about length.

BR sends the script of "Logical Analysis" and draws attention to the mention of Hindus and Muslims. (The series is "Today and Tomorrow".)

Re Brains Trust for 21 January 1947.

BR agrees to Brains Trust on Jan. 21.

BR will record an introductory passage in French for "Logical Analysis" (aka "A Plea for Clear Thinking").

Re Brains Trust for 31 December 1946.

BR sends his script for "Science and Democracy".

Re Brains Trust for 11 February 1946.

What to cover in BR's "Power" talk for 3 February 1947. Script is due by 29 January 1947.

BR states he has already recorded "Logical Analysis" in English and partly in French, on Jan. 2.

BR will let Steedman have the "Power" script by Jan. 29.

Grisewood wants BR for the Atomic Energy series for week of 2 March 1947 (Home Service).

Re a page to put at the beginning of the broadcast.

BR wrote a new p. 1 for that broadcast, and both Kallin and this concerned the Third Programme.

BR is glad to be on French Brains Trust, 24 February 1947.

BR encloses his "Power" script.

BR agrees to Brains Trust on Feb. 11, as requested on Jan. 3. BR's letter is undated.

BR has agreed to broadcast on "Atomic Energy" and wants the Baruch Report and other such documents.

BR has asked Hall to thank Langham for his letter of 29 January and to say that he will attend the Brains Trust on 11 March.

BR has asked Hall to thank Provan for her letter of 1 February.

He is agreeable to the fee of 15 guineas for the French Brains Trust to be recorded on Feb. 24.

Through Hall, BR declines to write a script on "Patriotism and Conscience" because of great pressure of work.

Enclosed ts. is a list of publications lent to BR re atomic energy, in connection with his BBC talk on the subject:

"World Power and Atomic Energy", by H.E. Wimperis.

"The Story of the Atomic Bomb", by C.H. Douglas Clar.

"Atomic Energy: Now and Tomorrow", by D. Dietz.

"Why Smash Atoms", by A.K. Solomon.

"Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under Auspices of U.S. Government 1940-45", by H.D. Smyth.

"Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy" (Lilienthal Report).

"Effects of the Atomic Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (Report of the British Mission to Japan).

"Technological Control of Atomic Energy" (First Report of Scientific and Technical Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission)

"Atomic Energy Act, 1946".

"Statements by the Prime Minister and Mr. Churchill relating to the Atomic Bomb".
 

BR has asked Hall to thank Langham for his letter of 20 February.

BR will be pleased to join the Brains Trust on 1 April.

BR returns the contract for "The Situation Created for Mankind".

He finds the fee of 45 guineas "very satisfactory".

A group in Denmark supports the IWCT and has produced a poster.

Goldie encloses texts of several "Atomic Energy" talks per BR's request.

From the editor of The Listener.

Proof of "Logical Analysis" (aka "A Plea for Clear Thinking") is enclosed (not present).

BR should return proof as soon as possible.

Grisewood wants "What I Believe" from BR for a series.

BR agrees to "What I Believe" on May 20."

"As it is on the Home Service I suppose I must avoid too much philosophy. I am glad the BBC has adopted a more liberal policy."

BR is at the hotel until April 22.

Kallin wants a review of Crawshay-Williams for Third Programme, 27 May or 10 June 1947.

BR's review of Crawshay-Williams will be broadcast 27 May 1947.

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

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

BR has asked Hall to thank Walthew for her letter of 28 April and to say he will arrive at Broadcasting House at 8:45 pm on 20 May.

BR declines to speak on Aristotle: "I know very little Greek".

BR's "point of view is too different from that of most philosophers to be given out as if it were conventional."

BR declines to speak on education as it is, although he has written on what it ought to be.

BR declines to speak (e.g. on linking Europe and England), as he is finishing a big book. He is available from Oct. 10.

BR will be in London Sept. 26-30 and permanently from Oct. 5.

BR agrees to write for the "As I See It" series (apparently "The Outlook for Western Europe" on Oct. 21). (The "As I See It" broadcast could also be "The BBC", on Nov. 11.)

He would like to know the date and time as soon as possible.

Not a letter but a copy of a contract between BBC and BR for payment for Six Autour d'un Micro. Also a carbon copy of a talk slip for participation in this series on Nov. 10 and 16.

Not a letter but a copy of a contract between BBC and BR for payment for "The Outlook for Western Europe".

Not a letter but a copy of a contract between BBC and BR for payment for "The BBC".

Also a carbon copy of a talk slip for "The BBC".

BR will be away Dec. 12 to Jan. 13 and cannot discuss with Copleston then.

Re "The Rewards of Philosophy".