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John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics, will develop and narrate a major new television series for the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), sources reported and Galbraith confirmed yesterday...
...Galbraith said he anticipates taking the "next couple of years" off from his teaching duties to work on the programs. Production is scheduled to begin in the middle of this year with completion expected in the first quarter of 1977, sources said...
...Galbraith said he will have a "very free hand" in determining the content of the series. Like its predecessors, the "Age of Uncertainty" series will be a personal view by a noted expert who will write the script and narrate both on and off-camera...
...content of the shows has not yet been fully defined, Galbraith said, but themes covered will include the development of capitalist and socialist societies in this century, imperialism and colonialism, Keynesian economics, and what Galbraith called the "uncertainty of the twentieth century...
...Galbraith said discussions about the series have taken place with BBC officials here and will be continued in London when he arrives there later this week...