Small World: Season 1

Episodes

1. 1. Prime Minister Nehru of India, Aldous Huxley and Thomas Dewey

   Oct 12, 1958

   Murrow conducts a chat with Prime Minister Nehru of India, Aldous Huxley, and Thomas Dewey

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

   Oct 19, 1958

   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.

3. 3. Lauren Bacall, Malcolm Muggeridge, Eric Johnston

   Oct 26, 1958

   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.

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

   Nov 2, 1958

   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.

5. 5. Peter Ustinov, Sol Hurok, Governor Theodore McKeldin

   Nov 9, 1958

   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.

6. 6. James C. Hagerty, Jacques Soustelle, Malcolm Muggeridge

   Nov 16, 1958

   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.

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

   Nov 23, 1958

   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.

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

   Nov 30, 1958

   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.

9. 9. Antoni Slonimski, Artur Rubenstein, Archibald MacLeish

   Dec 7, 1958

   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.

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

    Dec 14, 1958

    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.

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

    Dec 21, 1958

    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.

12. 12. Vivien Leigh, Samuel Goldwyn, Kenneth Tynan

    Dec 28, 1958

    Actress Vivien Leigh, movie producer Samuel Goldwyn and New York drama critic Kenneth Tynan join Murrow in a filmed conversation.

13. 13. Episode 13

    Jan 4, 1959

14. 14. Episode 14

    Jan 11, 1959

15. 15. Episode 15

    Jan 18, 1959

16. 16. Episode 16

    Jan 25, 1959

17. 17. Episode 17

    Feb 1, 1959

18. 18. Episode 18

    Feb 8, 1959

19. 19. Episode 19

    Feb 15, 1959

20. 20. Episode 20

    Feb 22, 1959

21. 21. Episode 21

    Mar 1, 1959

22. 22. Episode 22

    Mar 8, 1959

23. 23. Episode 23

    Mar 15, 1959

24. 24. Humor in Theatre

    Mar 22, 1959

25. 25. Episode 25

    Mar 29, 1959

26. 26. Episode 26

    Apr 5, 1959

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