A programme for children at home.
Storyteller this week, Ian Wallace
(to 11.30)
7.30 How and Why?: 6: Demonstrations on Energy
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.
Using the unifying concept of energy this programme shows ways in which teacher-demonstrations can be used creatively.
8.0 Wealth of a Nation: 6: S.O.S. for Growth
A series of eleven programmes which consider the economics of growth.
How can we prevent the million private dreams from becoming the public nightmare?
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: Paul Streeten, Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, William Clark, Director, Overseas Development Institute
8.30 Research Report: 6: Hypersonic Flight
Eleven programmes looking into current research on the frontiers of science.
The Concord will fly at more than twice the speed of sound. But after Concord another generation of hypersonic aircraft, faster still, will result from today's research in aerodynamics and propulsion technology. If cruising speeds are to rise to Mach 5 and 6 and 7 entirely new problems await solution by airframe and engine designers-working together more closely than ever before.
9.0 Age of Adjustment: 1: The Great Divide
Six programmes on British foreign policies from 1945 to the present day.
Introduced by Peter Calvocoressi, Member of the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
How was it that East-West hostility grew up so rapidly after the war? What was British policy in the first years of the Cold War? And what was Britain's role to be in the new world situation?
Also taking part: Professor Hugh Seton-Watson, Professor of Russian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London
1942 - the Master of Spectacle: Cecil B. DeMille, producer and director of Reap the Wild Wind
Starring John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard
with Raymond Massey, Robert Preston
followed by The Weather
Round off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and tonight's guests.
