Some areas of the brain give no response to any means of stimulation yet discovered, and seem to have no obvious function at all. Much the largest and most enigmatic of these ' silent areas ' are the frontal lobes. And yet the large development of these frontal lobes is one of man's most characteristic physical features.
This programme is concerned with the evidence which seems to show that a special relationship exists between these silent areas of the brain and qualities of personality.
Scientific advice has been given by Geoffrey Jefferson , C.B.E., r.R.s.. Professor of Neuro-Surgery in the University of Manchester ; Alexander Kennedy , Professor of Psychological Medicine in the University of Durham: and J. Z. Young , F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy in the University of London
Narrator, Edward Chapman
Programme written and produced by Nesta Pain