Bound volume of Reith Lecture manuscripts for 'The Individual and the Universe' by Sir (Alfred Charles) Bernard Lovell Volume contains the final scripts from which Lovell read his series of BBC commissioned Reith Lectures in 1958. The manuscripts show the final amendments made in the studio during rehearsals for the live evening broadcasts as well as information on the dates and times of rehearsal and broadcast for each lecture with the locations of broadcast and recording and the recording number. The name of the producer is listed as J Weltman. The manuscript is accompanied by a letter from Bernard Lovell to family friends Betty and Derek Lockett to whom he gifted the manuscripts in 1959. The lecture series is titled 'The Individual and the Universe', over the course of six lectures Lovell examines the history of our solar system and contemporary research into exploration of the solar system the origin of the universe. The titles of each of the lectures in the series are as follows: 1. Astronomy Breaks Free. In which Lovell explores how our perception of asrronomy has changed. 2. The Origin of the Solar Sysytem. In which Lovell considers how our solar system was created. 3. The New Astronomy. In which Lovell considers the importance of advancing astronomy. 4. Astronomy and the State. In which Lovell explores how countries invest in solar system exploration. 5. The Origin of the Universe 1. In which Lovell contemplates the implications of evolutionary theory. 6. The Origin of the Universe 2. In which Lovell explores the continous creation theory of the universe. 1958