Jones Allan
Br J Hist Sci. 2014 Dec;47(175 Pt 4):701-23. doi: 10.1017/s0007087413000927.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the elite world of institutional British science attempted to take control of the BBC's management of science broadcasting. Delegations of scientists met BBC managers to propose an increased role for scientists in planning science broadcasts to a degree that threatened to compromise the BBC's authority and autonomy. The culmination was a set of proposals to the Pilkington Committee in 1960, principally from the Royal Society and the British Association for the Advancement of Science, under which a scientist-manager was to be appointed head of a unified science division in the BBC. BBC managers resisted these proposals. The outcome, in 1964, was a compromise giving the scientists little of what they wanted, and proving practically and strategically useful for the BBC. The article frames the story as a contest of jurisdiction between elite science and the BBC, and draws on scholarship relating to the social nature of authority and professions, and to the popularization of science. It shows the fundamentally different beliefs held by the scientists and the BBC about the purpose of science broadcasts and about the nature of the audience. The historical narrative is based on unpublished archive documents, and it contributes to the small but growing body of work on the historical background to the presentation of science in the broadcast media.
在20世纪50年代末和60年代初，英国科学界的精英们试图掌控英国广播公司（BBC）的科学广播管理工作。科学家代表团与BBC管理人员会面，提议让科学家在科学广播规划中发挥更大作用，其程度甚至威胁到BBC的权威和自主性。1960年，主要来自皇家学会和英国科学促进协会的一系列提议提交给了皮尔金顿委员会，提议中要任命一名科学家管理人员担任BBC一个统一科学部门的负责人。BBC管理人员抵制了这些提议。1964年的结果是达成了一项妥协，科学家们几乎一无所获，但这一结果对BBC在实际操作和战略层面都很有用。本文将这个故事描述为精英科学与BBC之间的管辖权之争，并借鉴了有关权威和职业的社会性质以及科学普及的学术研究。它展示了科学家和BBC在科学广播目的以及受众性质方面存在的根本不同信念。这一历史叙述基于未发表的档案文件，为广播媒体中科学呈现的历史背景这一虽小但不断增长的研究工作做出了贡献。
