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Man's Right to Knowledge

Man's Right to Knowledge

1954 radio show on CBS

Man's Right to Knowledge was a radio program that ran from January 3, 1954 to December 26, 1954 on CBS. Created by Columbia University on the occasion of its bicentennial, the show consisted of two weekly lecture series, each episode featuring a different prominent academic or world leader. The university's president, Grayson L. Kirk, hosted the series. The content of each lecture centered around the university's bicentennial theme, "Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof". The first series, titled Man's Right to Knowledge: Tradition and Change, ran for thirteen weeks beginning on January 3.[1] The second, titled Man's Right to Knowledge: Present Knowledge and Future Directions, ran for another thirteen weeks beginning on October 3.[2] The final lecture, delivered by J. Robert Oppenheimer in his first public appearance since the end of his security hearings earlier that year, marked the official end of the Bicentennial.[3]

The show was wildly successful—within three months of the show's debut, the university had already received 10,000 requests for reprints of the talks; its episodes were eventually transcribed and published in two volumes.[4] By September 1954, the book version of the first series had sold over 22,000 copies.[2] The series was translated and rebroadcast across the world, and won a 1954 Peabody Award for its "unprecedented impact", and the way it "stimulated a crusade for free inquiry and free expression—and helped to give to millions of individuals a deeper understanding of their rights to knowledge."[5]

Episodes

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Wolfgang Pauli
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Man's Right to Knowledge: Tradition and Change

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Man's Right to Knowledge: Present Knowledge and Future Directions

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Dr. Kirk to Preside at Radio Lectures". The New York Times. December 20, 1953. Archived from the original on July 18, 2022. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  2. [2]
    "C.B.S. Will Resume Series of Lectures". The New York Times. September 18, 1954. Archived from the original on July 18, 2022. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  3. [3]
    "1954: Nuclear Scientist Speaks". The New York Times. December 27, 2004. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
  4. [4]
    "'Knowledge' Theme Wins Columbia U. Air Time Bonanza". Billboard. March 27, 1954. Archived from the original on July 17, 2022. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  5. [5]
    "Man's Right to Knowledge". The Peabody Awards. Archived from the original on July 10, 2022. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  6. [6]
    Grams, Martin (2008). Radio Drama: A Comprehensive Chronicle of American Network Programs, 1932–1962. McFarland Publishing. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-7864-3871-6.
  7. [7]
    Man's Right to Knowledge: Second Series: Present Knowledge and New Directions; an International Symposium Presented in Honor of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of Columbia University 1754–1954. Columbia University Press. 1954.
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