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Small World

1958 - 1960

Prime Minister Nehru of India, Aldous Huxley and Thomas Dewey

12th October 1958
Episode 1
Murrow conducts a chat with Prime Minister Nehru of India, Aldous Huxley, and Thomas Dewey

Lord Bertrand Russell, Dr. Willard F. Libby, Dr. Homi J. Bhabha

19th October 1958
Episode 2
Atomic energy as threat and promise are at the center of today's discussion. The guests are Bertrand Russell, philosopher and Nobel Prize author in London; Dr. Willard F. Libby of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, in Washington D.C.; Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India, in Paris. Lord Russell has been active in efforts to halt nuclear weapons.

Lauren Bacall, Malcolm Muggeridge, Eric Johnston

26th October 1958
Episode 3
Lauren Bacall, Malcolm Muggeridge, former editor of "Punch" a British humor magazine and Eric Johnston are the assembled raconteurs, and the first two help make this a most engaging session on this international fest. Miss Bacall, intelligent and humorous, discusses how good Hollywood films are as overseas ambassadors, and debates the question of female suffrage.

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, Dr. Mark Van Doren, Rebecca West

2nd November 1958
Episode 4
A discussion on education includes author Rebecca West in Buckinghamshire, England; Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover in Washington, D.C.; and Dr. Mark Van Doren in Cornwall, Connecticut.

Peter Ustinov, Sol Hurok, Governor Theodore McKeldin

9th November 1958
Episode 5
Particularly amusing telephonic chat between actor Peter Ustinov, impresario Sol Hurok and Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin. This combative trio consider politics, culture and TV. Hurok and Ustinov both make good sense, with the latter being not only perceptive, but witty as he demolishes several ideas advanced by Governor McKeldin, who unintentionally proves Ustinov's contention that politicians, like the Russians, can be funny precisely because they have no sense of humor.

James C. Hagerty, Jacques Soustelle, Malcolm Muggeridge

16th November 1958
Episode 6
Conversation is carried on by Presidential News Secretary James C. Hagerty; Jacques Soustelle, minister of information for the De Gaulle government, and Malcolm Muggeridge, former editor of Britain's Punch magazine. Speakers are in Washington, Paris and London, respectively.

General Alfred M. Groenther, Aneturin Bevan, Franz Josef Strauss

23rd November 1958
Episode 7
General Alfred M. Groenther, Aneturin Bevan, British Labor Party leader and Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's defense minister, discuss the defense of Middle and Western Europe.

President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Richard Clement Attlee

30th November 1958
Episode 8
Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the United States, and Richard Clement Attlee, 40th prime minister of Great Britain, in intercontinental conversation with Edward R. Murrow. Mr. Truman is in Independence, Mo. Earl Attlee is in London.

Antoni Slonimski, Artur Rubenstein, Archibald MacLeish

7th December 1958
Episode 9
Murrow is joined in intercontinental conversation by Antoni Slonimski, Poland's poet laureate, Artur Rubenstein, world-famed Polish born pianist, and Archibald MacLeish, 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner. The guest speakers are in Warsaw, Paris and Washington, and the Warsaw visit is the show's first stop in a Communist country.

Dr. Milton Eisenhower, Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz-Marin, Dr. Galo Plaza

14th December 1958
Episode 10
Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz-Marin and Dr. Galo Plaza, former president of Ecuador join Murrow in an unrehearsed, intercontinental conversation about relations between the United States and its neighbor nations to the South.

James O. Sastland, Herb Block, Professor Denis W. Brogan

21st December 1958
Episode 11
James O. Sastland, Herbert L. Block, syndicated editorial cartoonist of the Washington Post and Times-Herald, and Denis W. Brogan, professor of political science at Cambridge, and moderator Murrow discuss the U.S. Senate's controversial filibuster rule.

Vivien Leigh, Samuel Goldwyn, Kenneth Tynan

28th December 1958
Episode 12
Actress Vivien Leigh, movie producer Samuel Goldwyn and New York drama critic Kenneth Tynan join Murrow in a filmed conversation.

Episode 13

4th January 1959
Episode 13
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Episode 14

11th January 1959
Episode 14
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Episode 15

18th January 1959
Episode 15
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Episode 16

25th January 1959
Episode 16
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Episode 17

1st February 1959
Episode 17
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Episode 18

8th February 1959
Episode 18
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Episode 19

15th February 1959
Episode 19
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Episode 20

22nd February 1959
Episode 20
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Episode 21

1st March 1959
Episode 21
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Episode 22

8th March 1959
Episode 22
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Episode 23

15th March 1959
Episode 23
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Humor in Theatre

22nd March 1959
Episode 24
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Episode 25

29th March 1959
Episode 25
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Episode 26

5th April 1959
Episode 26
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Presents a filmed, intercontinental conversation that links moderator Edward R. Murrow in New York with three internationally known figures located in different parts of the world. What set this apart from other televised interview/discussion programs was the fact that its participants could not see each other but could hear one another via telephone lines and radio.

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