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Program produced and narrated by Elsa Knight Thompson. Readings of articles about the world's population problem.
Parts of articles by:
1. Robert C. Cook, President of the Population Reference Bureau. Article published in the Washington Post Outlook; read by Dale Minor.
2. Dr. Sripati Chandrasekhar, director of India's Institute for Population in Madras. Article from Washington Post Outlook; read by Elsa Knight Thompson.
3. John C. Bennett, former President of the American Theological Society. Article from Washington Post; read by Mike Tigar.
4. The statement of the Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States, given November 25, 1959 at the close of their annual meeting in Washington, D.C.; read by a KPFA reporter.
5. Sound clip: An exchange between President Eisenhower and a reporter from Newsweek, a week later at a press conference.
6. Excerpt from the address of British biologist Sir Julian Huxley upon his receipt of the Albert Lasker Foundation Award at the Planned Parenthood Federation on November 19, 1959 in New York City.

Recording ends with "...of his own existence is at stake."

Part 6 of KPFA's presentation of the University of California's Medical Center Conference "The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche" held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 4 of "The Enduring and Ephemeral in Women's Life." In this recording, Max Lerner, Ph.D.(1902-1992), Max Richter Professor of American Civilization, College of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) presents "Profiles of the Vanishing Father" on the changing role of men in the household. Lerner says at the beginning that he has layrngitis, and his vocal quality diminishes as his talk progresses.

Notes on label: "History: about father/son relation - at core of society; about family - and different family structures. Will become a new leisure society with automation. Father to come back into the family."

A memorial program for biologist Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964), author of "Silent spring," "The sea around us," "Under the sea wind," and other books. Contains readings from her books that outlined her activism against the use of harmful pesticides, as well as responses from both her detractors and supporters in the media. Also includes an interview with David Brower, executive director of the Sierra Club, who recalls his last visit with Carson. Produced by Joan McIntyre for KPFA. Narrated by Trevor Thomas.

In July of 1970, Dr. Claude Steiner, one of the founders of the Rap Center of Berkeley, offered a course in Radical Psychiatry at the Free University of Berkeley. This presentation of the course is on women's oppression and how he now deals with it in his groups. Hogie Wyckoff, also a radical therapist, presents her views and ideas for women to deal with their own oppression through radical psychiatry problem solving groups. In her presentation here she discusses the externalized and internalized oppression of women. She also discusses some fundamental principles of radical psychiatry and transactional analysis and how they can be used by women in problem solving groups. Steiner speaks for the first ten minutes and introduces Wyckoff.