Small World

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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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Edward R. Murrow

Self – Moderator

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Prime Minister Nehru of India, Aldous Huxley and Thomas Dewey

1958-10-12

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

1958-10-19

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

1958-10-26

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

1958-11-02

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

1958-11-09

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

1958-11-16

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

1958-11-23

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

1958-11-30

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

1958-12-07

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

1958-12-14

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

1958-12-21

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

1958-12-28

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

Episode 13

1959-01-04

Episode 14

1959-01-11

Episode 15

1959-01-18

Episode 16

1959-01-25

Episode 17