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A Serious attempt was made by the B.B.C. to give listeners an account of the recent meeting of the British Association in Dundee, by bringing representative speakers to the microphone every day. A descriptive broadcast on Dundee and St. Andrews was also given in the B.B.C. overseas service to Germany on September 19, and repeated on September 23. The broadcast, recorded in German, included an account of the Dundee shipyards and of visits to marmalade and jute factories. There were also interviews at Dundee with Prof. J. D. Cockcroft on atomic energy, Sir Robert Watson-Watt on radar and Dr. E. B. Chain on penicillin. The account of the University of St. Andrews and of the ancient buildings of the city included interviews with Dr. C. T. Carr, lecturer in German, and Dr. John Read, professor of chemistry, whose reference to alchemical music was illustrated by a gramophone reproduction of one of Count Michael Maier's canons from “Atalanta Fugiens” (1618).
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Overseas Broadcast of the British Association Meeting. Nature 160, 461 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160461c0
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