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Planning for Discovery

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A BBC Television film.
Written and directed by John Read.
Sir Lawrence Bragg of the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge, and Sir Edward Appleton, Principal of Edinburgh University, describe the problem of organising and applying scientific research. In this film they deal with radio physics, and in particular with Sir Edward Appleton's ionosphere discoveries which opened the way to round-the-world broadcasting.
See 'Talk of the Week'

Contributors

Writer/Director:
John Read
Presenter:
Sir Lawrence Bragg
Presenter:
Sir Edward Appleton

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