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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. The second, titled Man's Right to Knowledge: Present Knowledge and Future Directions, ran for another thirteen weeks beginning on October 3. 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.

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. By September 1954, the book version of the first series had sold over 22,000 copies. 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."

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Episodes

Man's Right to Knowledge: Tradition and Change

#LecturerSubtopicTitleOriginal air date
1Arnold J. Toynbee7"The Idea of Man""The Ancient Mediterranean View of Man"January 3, 1954
2Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan8"The Ancient Asian View of Man"January 10, 1954
3William F. Albright9"The Judeo-Christian View of Man"January 17, 1954
4Joseph Wood Krutch10"The Modern View of Man"January 24, 1954
5William Linn Westermann11"The Idea of Society""Authority and Freedom in the Ancient Mediterranean World"January 31, 1954
6Hu Shih12"Authority and Freedom in the Ancient Asian World"February 7, 1954
7Martin D'Arcy13"Authority and Freedom in Medieval Europe"February 14, 1954
8Robert Morrison MacIver14"Authority and Freedom in the Modern World"February 21, 1954
9George Sarton15"The Idea of the Universe""The Old World and the New Humanism"February 28, 1954
10Swami Nikhilananda16"The Universe as Pure Being"March 7, 1954
11François Louis Ganshof17"Knowledge and Faith in Medieval Europe"March 14, 1954
12Homi J. Bhabha18"Inquiry and Reason Today"March 21, 1954
13Grayson L. Kirk19"The Idea of the University""The Idea of the University"March 28, 1954

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

#LecturerSubtopicTitleOriginal air date
1Howard P. Robertson20"The Nature of Things""The Nature of the Universe"October 3, 1954
2Wolfgang Pauli21"The Nature of Matter"October 10, 1954
3Hermann Joseph Muller22"The Nature of Life"October 17, 1954
4Henry Murray23"Versions of Man"October 24, 1954
5John Lord O'Brian24"Human Organization""Law and Freedom"October 31, 1954
6Jean Monnet25"Use of Resources"November 7, 1954
Eli Ginzberg2627"Human Potential"
7Brock Chisholm28"Physical Well-Being"November 14, 1954
8Hans Speier29"War and Peace"November 21, 1954
9Paul Tillich30"The Human Spirit""Religion as an Aspect of the Human Spirit"November 28, 1954
10William George Constable31"Visual Arts as an Aspect of the Human Spirit"December 5, 1954
11Herbert Read32"Literature as an Aspect of the Human Spirit"December 12, 1954
12Aaron Copland33"Music as an Aspect of the Human Spirit"December 19, 1954
13J. Robert Oppenheimer34"Prospects in the Arts and Sciences""Prospects in the Arts and Sciences"December 26, 1954

See also

References

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