Archives for January 11, 2019

Malcolm Muggeridge interviews Edward R. Murrow on Panorama, a BBC series first seen in 1953 that is the world’s longest-running television program about current affairs. The two men discuss the art of interviewing and the differences between covering news on radio and TV, after which Murrow reminisces about broadcasting from London for CBS during the Battle of Britain.

This conversation was originally telecast on June 1, 1955:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television—of that I am quite sure.”

E.B. White, “One Man’s Meat: Removal” (Harper’s, July 1938)