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C. P. Snow: The Two Cultures and the Sorcerer's Apprentice

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In 1959 C. P. Snow gave his now famous lecture on The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Tonight he examines why his modest proposals became a jumping-off point for a violent debate all over the world.

A shortened version of a Friday Evening Discourse given at the Royal Institution last November
BBC-TV Science and Features presentation

See page 27

Contributors

Speaker:
C. P. Snow
Drawings of C. P. Snow by:
Michael Ayrton
Director:
Tom Conway
Presented for television by:
Philip Daly
Source: Radio Times

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