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The Brains Trust

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The Brains Trust was a popular informational BBC radio and later television programme in the United Kingdom during the 1940s and 1950s, on which a panel of experts tried to answer questions sent in by the audience. [1]

62 relations: A. B. Campbell, A. J. Ayer, A. S. Byatt, Alan Bullock, Alec Sutherland, Angela Tilby, Anna Neagle, Anthony Chenevix-Trench, Any Questions?, Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, BBC, BBC Home Service, BBC Online, BBC Radio 3, BBC Television, Bertrand Russell, Biologist, C. E. M. Joad, C. S. Lewis, Collin Brooks, D. J. R. Bruckner, DePaul University, Does the Team Think?, Donald McCullough (broadcaster), Douglas Cleverdon, Edward Andrade, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Egon Ronay, Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther, Gwyn Thomas (novelist), H. L. A. Hart, Hannen Swaffer, Howard Thomas, Information Please, Isaiah Berlin, Jacob Bronowski, Joan Bakewell, John Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud, Joost de Blank, Julian Huxley, Kenneth Clark, Malcolm Muggeridge, Malcolm Sargent, Margery Fry, Michael Ayrton, Noel Annan, Baron Annan, Norman Fisher (educationalist), Northwestern University, Officer (armed forces), PBS, ..., Philanthropy, Philosophy, Psychologist, Richard Dawkins, Rupert Gould, Storytelling, Theodore Zeldin, Tom Wintringham, Vaudeville, Violet Bonham Carter, Will Hay, WTTW. Expand index (12 more) »

A. B. Campbell

Commander Archibald Bruce Campbell (21 January 1881 – 11 April 1966) was a British naval officer and radio broadcaster, born in Peckham, London.

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A. J. Ayer

Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer, FBA (29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989), usually cited as A. J. Ayer, was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956).

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A. S. Byatt

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy HonFBA (née Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally as A. S. Byatt, is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner.

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Alan Bullock

Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock, (13 December 1914 – 2 February 2004) was a British historian.

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Alec Sutherland

Alec Sutherland (19 August 1922 – 16 April 2014) was a Scottish RAF most notable for serving with No 5 Group, Bomber Command whose missions on the heavy bombers over enemy territory helped take Britain to victory in the Second World War.

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Angela Tilby

Angela Tilby (born 1950) is an author and Anglican priest, who is Canon Emeritus at Christ Church, Oxford.

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Anna Neagle

Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox, (née Robertson; 20 October 1904 – 3 June 1986), known professionally as Anna Neagle, was a popular English stage and film actress, singer and dancer.

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Anthony Chenevix-Trench

Anthony Chenevix-Trench (10 May 1919 – 21 June 1979) was a British schoolteacher and classics scholar.

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Any Questions?

Any Questions? is a topical debate radio programme in the United Kingdom that has been broadcast since 1948.

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Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, (23 May 1914 – 31 May 1981) was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Home Service

The BBC Home Service was a British national radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it became the current BBC Radio 4.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.

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Biologist

A biologist, is a scientist who has specialized knowledge in the field of biology, the scientific study of life.

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C. E. M. Joad

Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (12 August 1891 – 9 April 1953) was an English philosopher and broadcasting personality.

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.

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Collin Brooks

Collin Brooks (22 December 1893 – 1959), frequently known as "CB"), was a British journalist, writer, and broadcaster. In 1913 he founded the Manchester Press Agency but then joined the British Army in 1915 where he was awarded the Military Cross as a 2nd Lieutenant. After the war, he worked for many newspapers from 1921 until 1953, becoming chairman and editor of Truth for 12 years. His later career moved from journalism to broadcasting and participated in Any Questions and The Brains Trust for BBC Radio.

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D. J. R. Bruckner

Donald Jerome Raphael Bruckner (November 26, 1933 – September 20, 2013) was an American columnist, critic, and journalist, whose work landed him on the master list of Nixon's political opponents.

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DePaul University

DePaul University is a private university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Does the Team Think?

Does The Team Think? was a radio panel game broadcast originally on the BBC Light Programme (later BBC Radio 2) from 1957 to 1976, and revived, again on Radio 2, with a new cast, in 2007.

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Donald McCullough (broadcaster)

William Donald Hamilton McCullough (15 August 1901 – 1978) was an Irish born British writer and broadcaster.

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Douglas Cleverdon

Thomas Douglas James Cleverdon (17 January 1903 – 1 October 1987) was an English radio producer and bookseller.

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Edward Andrade

Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS (27 December 1887 – 6 June 1971) was an English physicist, writer, and poet.

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Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany.

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Egon Ronay

Egon Miklos Ronay (24 July 1915 – 12 June 2010) was a Hungarian-born food critic who wrote and published a famous series of guides to British and Irish restaurants and hotels in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther

Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther (13 May 1907 – 5 February 1972) was a British economist, journalist, educationalist and businessman.

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Gwyn Thomas (novelist)

Gwyn Thomas (6 July 1913 – 13 April 1981) was a Welsh writer, dramatist, Punch-columnist, radio broadcaster and raconteur, who has been called "the true voice of the English-speaking valleys".

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H. L. A. Hart

Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart, FBA (18 July 1907 – 19 December 1992), usually cited as H. L. A. Hart, was a British legal philosopher, and a major figure in political and legal philosophy.

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Hannen Swaffer

Frederick Charles Hannen Swaffer (1 November 1879 – 16 January 1962) was an English journalist and drama critic.

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Howard Thomas

Howard Thomas CBE (5 March 1909 – 6 November 1986) was a Welsh radio producer and television executive.

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Information Please

Information Please was an American radio quiz show, created by Dan Golenpaul, which aired on NBC from May 17, 1938 to April 22, 1951.

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Isaiah Berlin

Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas.

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Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-born British mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor.

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Joan Bakewell

Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE (née Rowlands; born 16 April 1933) is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party Peer.

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John Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud

John Primatt Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud, (3 February 1906 – 20 November 1982) was a British civil servant and diplomat.

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Joost de Blank

Joost de Blank (14 November 1908 – 1 January 1968) was the Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa from 1957 to 1963 and was known as the "scourge of apartheid" for his ardent opposition to the whites-only policies of the South African government.

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Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist.

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Kenneth Clark

Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster.

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Malcolm Muggeridge

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist and satirist.

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Malcolm Sargent

Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent (29 April 1895 – 3 October 1967) was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works.

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Margery Fry

Sara Margery Fry (11 March 1874 – 21 April 1958) was a British prison reformer as well as one of the first women to become a magistrate.

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Michael Ayrton

Michael Ayrton (20 February 1921 – 16 November 1975)T.

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Noel Annan, Baron Annan

Noel Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan, OBE (25 December 1916 – 21 February 2000) was a British military intelligence officer, author, and academic.

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Norman Fisher (educationalist)

Norman George Fisher (9 July 1910 – 1 February 1972) was a British educationalist who was at various times Chief Education Officer for the English city of Manchester, head of the staff college of the National Coal Board, and chairman of the panel on the BBC Television question-and-answer show, The Brains Trust.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, United States, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Miami, Florida, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.

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Officer (armed forces)

An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy means the love of humanity.

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Philosophy

Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

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Psychologist

A psychologist studies normal and abnormal mental states from cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior by observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one another and to their environments.

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Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author.

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Rupert Gould

Rupert Thomas Gould (16 November 1890 – 5 October 1948) was a lieutenant-commander in the British Royal Navy noted for his contributions to horology (the science and study of timekeeping devices).

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Storytelling

Storytelling describes the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment.

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Theodore Zeldin

Theodore Zeldin (born 22 August 1933) is an Oxford scholar and thinker whose books have searched for answers to three questions.

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Tom Wintringham

Thomas Henry Wintringham (15 May 1898 – 16 August 1949) was a British soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, Marxist, politician and author.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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Violet Bonham Carter

Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, DBE (15 April 1887 – 19 February 1969), known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist.

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Will Hay

Hay in ''The Ghost of St. Michael's'' (1941) William Thomson Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian, actor, author, film director and amateur astronomer who came to notice for his theatrical sketch as a jocular schoolmaster, known as Dr.

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WTTW

WTTW, virtual channel 11 (UHF digital channel 47), is the primary Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brains_Trust

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