Dr George Steiner on Has Truth a Future?
Dr Jacob Bronowski , who died in 1974, said in his last broadcast ' No scientist could accept the idea that he's to make a discovery and then not publish it.' And yet, increasingly, there are pressures to restrict the scientist's freedom to search for the truth in case what he discovers causes harm to society.
In the first of an annual series of lectures in Jacob Bronowski 's memory, DR GEORGE STEINER , Fellow of Churchill College, Cam-bridge, analyses this growing conflict between science and the public good, and considers the possibility that scientists will no longer be allowed to search for the truth wherever it is to be found.
Director STUART HARRIS Producer KARL SABBAGH