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The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

on BBC Two England

A series of five lectures with by physicist and musician Professor Charles Taylor.
1: Whenever the pressure of the air is changed rapidly, by beating a drum or rattling a stick in a tin can, the ear-brain system detects the pressure changes as sound. The sound travels from the source to the listener as sound waves. But what are they really like?
Producer William Woollard An InCA production (R)

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Musician:
Professor Charles Taylor.
Producer:
William Woollard

BBC Two England

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