7.30 Mathematics '64: 16: High-speed Simpletons
A series of twenty programmes reflecting new trends in mathematics and in the teaching of mathematics.
The 'pencil-and-paper' evaluation of a 2,000-year-old formula provides a starting-point for determining how we must instruct a machine capable of 100,000 arithmetical operations per second.
Introduced by Alan Tammadge.
8.0 Design to Prosper: 1: Vital Component
A series on engineering design.
Good engineering design is vital to the prosperity of a manufacturing nation. What is good engineering design? How do British designs compare with those from abroad? with G.B.R. Feilden, F.R.S., author of the 1963 Government Committee Report on the state of British Engineering Design.
Introduced by Paddy Feeny.
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8.30 Brain and Behaviour: 4: Reason over Reflex
A series of eight programmes which examine the links between mind and body in the light of modern psychiatric knowledge and practice
What is normality and abnormality in childhood? What are the strongest influences on the growing child?
Introduced by The Director of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Guy's Hospital and by The Physician in Charge of the Department of Child Psychiatry, Guy's Hospital.
9.0 Remaking Africa: 1: Our God is Black
A series of five programmes about the problems facing newly independent countries.
Introduced by Keith Kyle.
Since 1956 thirty nations have become independent in Africa. Tonight's programme looks at the face of the new Africa and the force of black nationalism that created it.
Including a contribution from Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Prime Minister of Nigeria.
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