7.30 Mathematics '64: 15: Looking Ahead
A series of twenty programmes reflecting new trends in mathematics and in the teaching of mathematics.
Calculating machines relieve drudgery but they also illuminate the nature of elementary processes in arithmetic.
Presented by Alan Tammadge.
8.0 Basis for Decision: The Use of Operational Research: 3: The Human Factor
A series of three programmes on how scientific method can be used to solve problems of management.
It is not just the way the machines, money, and materials are organised that affects the success of an operation: the behaviour and attitudes of the men who run it are also the subject of Operational Research.
Presented by Professor P. Rivett.
8.45 Studying the Social Sciences: 6: Attitudes and Relationships
A series of six programmes prepared in association with the London School of Economics and Political Science.
The final programme in this series looks at three aspects of social studies all concerned with people's behaviour-social psychology, criminology, and industrial relations.
Among those taking part: Dr. Hilde Himmelweit, Dr. T.P. Morris, Professor B.C. Roberts
Introduced by Dr. Alan Little.
9.15 One Hundred Years of Marxism: 9: The End of an Ideology?
A series of nine programmes describing the development of Communist theory and practice from the time of Karl Marx to the present day.
In the concluding programme in this series Alan Bullock, Master of St. Catherine's College, Oxford; Alec Nove, Professor of Economics at Glasgow University and Peter Nettl, Lecturer in Politics at Leeds University consider the force of Marxist ideas in the political life of the world today.
Introduced by Warren Evans.