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With Richard's stuff, have you contacted Priscilla Heard, Richard's partner in his latter years? If he had copies she may well know where they are. IAN IAN SIMMONS SCIENCE CENTRES INTERNATIONAL Science Centre, Museum and Science Communication Consultancy www.sciencecentresinternational.com Studio 16, 4th Floor, Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE1 6QE, UK Tel: +44 (0)746 024 1307 Ian Simmons is a Swiss Army Knife for science center work - Claire Pillsbury, Projects Director, The Exploratorium -----Original Message----- From: psci-com: on public engagement with science <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of [log in to unmask] Sent: 18 July 2018 22:36 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] CHRISTMAS LECTURES: Missing, believed wiped Christmas Lectures? Wiped? That's a crime against science. Richard Gregory was a genius (with a chuckle). Did his university archive this? MK -----Original Message----- From: psci-com: on public engagement with science <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Dominic McDonald Sent: 18 July 2018 15:50 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [PSCI-COM] CHRISTMAS LECTURES: Missing, believed wiped Afternoon all (with apologies for cross-posting) A bit of a leftfield request, but we're hoping some bit of the hivemind might be able to help. Over the next 18 months or so the Ri will be uploading the complete back catalogue of our annual CHRISTMAS LECTURES, broadcast on the BBC, to our website. But 6 of the Lectures are missing, believed wiped... The highlights are one Lecture by Sir David Attenborough which hasn't been seen since it was first broadcast in 1973; and the entire series of six Lectures done in 1967 by the late great Richard Gregory, founder of the Exploratory in Bristol (which has evolved over the years into "We the Curious") and hence the great granddaddy of the UK's Science Centre sector. In September we'll be starting a media campaign to try and locate them, but a first step before then is to go direct to large institutional or personal film archives. So if anyone has an idea of the sort of places, in the UK or internationally, that might, just might, have a dusty old recording of a late 1960s / early 1970's science TV show, I'd be really interested to know about them please. We've already contacted the big ones listed below. Apart from the wonderful impact of finding some rare unseen footage of Sir David Attenborough, the CHRISTMAS LECTURES are a significant part of a rich heritage of science communication in the UK, so we're really keen to find them and make them available for new generations. 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