| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | HALDANE/5/8/1/17 |
| Title | A Layman Looks at Science |
| Date | Apr-May 1945 |
| Date2 | 16 Jan 1950 |
| Description | Correspondence dated April and May 1945 between Nesta Pain of the BBC, Haldane and Helen Spurway regarding a dramatisation of Haldane's wartime experiments on the effects of high gas pressures. This was recorded for the BBC's "A Layman Looks at Science" programme on the 27th April 1945 for the Home Service and re-recorded on the 30th May 1945 for transmission via the African Service. Encloses a copy of the script, a copy of the publicity statement for the episode and two contracts.
Letter dated 16 Jan 1950 from Nesta Pain to Helen Spurway regarding the dramatisation of a wartime experiment simulating an escape from a submarine. Includes a copy of the script. |
| Extent | 8 letters plus 3 enclosures plus 2 contracts |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
| Copyright | BBC, Haldane, Helen Spurway |