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The scientist looks at the living cell and the mysteries of the origins of life on earth.

Professor Michael Swann and Raymond Baxter introduce contributions from:

Europe - Dr. S. Brenner and Robert Horne, The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Professor F.G. Young, F.R.S., Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge; Professor L.S. Penrose, F.R.S., The Galton Laboratory, University College, London; Dr. M. Mitchison, Department of Zoology, University of Edinburgh; Dr. M. Grunberg-Manago, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris

United States of America - Dr. M. Meselson, California Institute of Technology; Dr. Sober, National Cancer Institute; Dr. Britton Chance, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. David E. Green, Institute of Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin; Dr. Harold C. Urey, University of California, La Jolla; Dr. Melvin Calvin, University of California, Berkeley

American film sequences directed by Derek Burrell-Davis and made in co-operation with the United States Information Services

U.S.S.R. - Academician A.I. Oparin, A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry Filming arranged for the BBC by Moscow Radio

(The BBC would like especially to acknowledge the help of Will Burtin and the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Manchester, for the help in the preparation of this programme)