In this unhosted program, the second part of a film by the British Information Service continues the discussion of prehistoric civilizations in the United Kingdom with the bronze age. The iron age in Britain began around 3,000 years ago when the Celts invaded the British Isles. They brought with them the first wheeled vehicles. Remains of an ancient city and a recreation of a farmstead from this are shown. Part number from label.

In this unhosted program, a film by the British Information Service traces the remains of graves, temples, houses, tools and other possessions of prehistoric civilizations in the United Kingdom. During the Old Stone Age, men hunted wild animals with crudely made tools and lived in caves. When the ice receded in the New Stone Age, the environment and geography of Great Britain was much changed, and men became farmers. Archaeologists interpret this history based on findings at such sites as the Windmill Hill settlement in the U. K., which has yielded the earliest examples of British pottery. Scenes from Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands show the extensive remains of this prehistoric village preserved by blowing sand dunes. And Belas Knap burial mound near Cheltenham reveals the stone chambers and tombs of that period. This two-part program concludes with the Bronze Age, when men learned to produce metals and create more uniform tools, such as a cast ax head.

After an introduction by Sir Roger Makins, British ambassador, British TV producer and moderator Andrew Miller Jones discusses the association between Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and Guy's Hospital in London. A film describes each of these teaching hospitals and how they have been connected through exchange of information, ideas, and faculty since 1946. Two of Johns Hopkins Hospital's recent developments are demonstrated by faculty: Dr. Francis Schwentker's humidified oxygen tent, and Dr. Russell Morgan's televised x-rays. Detlev W. Bronk, president of the Johns Hopkins University delivered an address on Anglo-American cooperation in the many fields of scientific research. Part title from label.

Beginning with a summary of the previous three programs filmed in Britain, this episode of the Johns Hopkins Science Review continues the discussion of recent scientific research in Britain. Highlights are research into the common cold and crystals, and developments in laundry washing and time lapse photography.

Introduced by American ambassador to Great Britain, Walter Gifford, this is the first British television program recorded and broadcast in the United States. A history of television in Britain follows, from the father of British TV John Logie Baird to the present where television signals are carried throughout the country by cables and radio links to broadcast towers from London to Scotland. A brief film of an early British television program originally broadcast in 1936 with the singer Sylvia Peters and ballerina Margot Fonteyn is shown. This is the first of three broadcasts originating in Great Britain about developments in British science, and is the only one known to still be in existence.

This program opens with a brief scene from Shakespeare's "Othello" performed in twentieth century dress and setting. Dr. Lawrence Ross, associate professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University, argues that such modern trappings distort Shakespeare's work and Elizabethan times. He explains that the Shakespeare stage was an open air platform with emphasis on the actors and their speech and symbolized the order of the universe with man in the center. The same scene is then performed on the Folger Shakespeare Library's stage in Washington, DC in period costume. Dr. Ross says that Shakespeare's dramatic poetry spoken on the symbolic stage represented the essence of life and that the meanings of Elizabethan words often differed from current ones. Shakespeare's characters are hybrid: part real, part symbol, such as Shylock exacting a pound of flesh in the dramatized scene from "The Merchant of Venice." Dr. Ross analyzes a portrait of Queen Elizabeth as an introduction to the Elizabethan order of natural authority: the king ruled over the state, God over the universe, the sun over the planets, the husband over the family, and reason over man. Actors from Johns Hopkins Play Shop perform five passages from "Macbeth" as Dr. Ross explains the violation of the social, political, and natural worlds, evident in the words and their rhythms, when Macbeth and his wife contemplate and carry out the death of King Duncan.