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7.30 How and Why?: 3: Push-Push, Pull-Pull
An enquiry into physics teaching today.
A series of fifteen programmes concerned with new ideas at the 11-16 age range.
Introduced by W. Ritchie.

Some fresh ways of looking at Force and Motion using trolleys, pucks, and ticker-timers.

8.0 Wealth of a Nation: 3: Creeping Inflation
A series of eleven programmes which consider the economics of growth.

Since the war prices have risen by an average 2-3 per cent. a year. Is inflation inevitable in an age of high employment?
Presenting the programme are: Roger Opie, Fellow and Tutor in Economics at New College, Oxford; Geoffrey Stuttard, Tutor in Industrial Studies for London University.
with contributions from
Professor F. W. Paish, London School of Economics; Robert Nield, Deputy Director of the N.I.E.S.R.; Joan Robinson, Reader in Economics at Cambridge

8.30 Research Report: 3: The Hand
Eleven programmes looking into current research on the frontiers of science.

Thirty-two million man-hours are lost every year through hand injuries.
A new vocabulary of hand function has been evolved which is surprisingly simple but very productive of research. It is influencing things as widely spread as hand surgery and rehabilitation, the design of industrial handles, and the study of early man.

9.0 Politics U.S.A.: 3: Congress
Five programmes on how the American political system works.
Introduced by Roderick MacLeish and Malcolm Shaw.

The Senate and the House of Representatives together form probably the most powerful legislature in the world. It handles a much greater mass of legislation than the British Parliament, and keeps much more detailed control over it. How?
Including a film interview with: Representative John Brademas of South Bend, Indiana

Contributors

Presenter (How and Why?):
W. Ritchie
Presented by (How and Why?):
Jim Jardine
Film cameraman (How and Why?):
Ian Kennedy
Film edited by (How and Why?):
Paul White
Director (How and Why?):
John Field
Producer (How and Why?):
John Cain
Presenter (Wealth of a Nation):
Roger Opie
Presenter (Wealth of a Nation):
Geoffrey Stuttard
Speaker (Wealth of a Nation):
Professor F. W. Paish
Speaker (Wealth of a Nation):
Robert Nield
Speaker (Wealth of a Nation):
Joan Robinson
Designer (Wealth of a Nation):
Jennifer Burningham
Production assistant (Wealth of a Nation):
Tony Matthews
Production assistant (Wealth of a Nation):
Margaret Jay
Producer (Wealth of a Nation):
Clive Parkhurst
Film editor (Research Report):
Raoul Sobel
Assistant producer (Research Report):
Peter Ryan
Producer (Research Report):
Roy Battersby
Presenter (Politics U.S.A.):
Roderick MacLeish
Presenter (Politics U.S.A.):
Malcolm Shaw
Interviewee (Politics U.S.A.):
Representative John Brademas
Associate producer (Politics U.S.A.):
Raymond Barker
Producer (Politics U.S.A.):
Christopher Doll

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