Szilard: - Told by Einstein that it's not the amount of time that matters but the product of time. Band 3 (0'48") Goldman: - Walter Hernst could not believe that, for once, one of Einstein's hunches was wrong: Szilard: - Einstein's self-deprecating humour. Band 4 (0'50") Snow: - Einstein and the Nazis. Band 5 (0'20") Szilard: - Einstein's disliking capitalism. Band 6 (1'00") Szilard: - Explained to Einstein that chain reaction in uranium coul lead to nuclear bomb - letter to Roosevelt. Band 7 (1'13") Snow: - Zionism: Einstein not a believing Jew, but identified with them when horrors deepened. Band 8 (1'45") Einstein the performer: Snow: - anecdote;Szilard: - anecdote. Band 9 (2'57") Snow: - Einstein' lack of interest in own past, warm but remote. NTS:Leo Szilard (Einstein's friend) originally from: - Einstein: The Man and his Achievement BBC1 TV 27.4.65 (interviewer unnamed & unheard). C.P. Snow (met Einstein & published biog.) int. Martin Goldman.
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