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Storyteller this week, Athene Seyler
(to 11.30)
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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
A film series.
Starring Ben Gazzara, Chuck Connors
and special guest stars, Nick Adams, Kamala Devi
with John Larch, John Kerr, Roger Perry
followed by The Weather
Round off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and tonight's guests.