‘The televising of science is a process of television’: establishing Horizon, 1962–1967.
BBC Television's Horizon series, fifty years old on 2 May 2014, despite its significance to the history of the public culture of science, has been little studied. This microhistorical account follows the gestation and early years of the programme, demonstrating how it established a social and cultur...
| Published in: | British Journal for the History of Science Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 87 - 122 |
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Mar2015
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