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An enquiry into physics teaching today.
Fifteen programmes concerned with new ideas at the 11-16 age range.
Introduced by W. Ritchie.

'Hear and forget, see and remember do and understand'. The programme shows a way in which pupil-activity can be encouraged in electro magnetism.
Presented by John Osborne with Michael Smith.

Contributors

Presenter:
W. Ritchie
Presented by:
John Osborne
Speaker:
Michael Smith
Film cameraman:
Michael Shepherd
Film cameraman:
John Turner
Film edited by:
Paul White
Director:
Edward Goldwyn
Producer:
John Cain

Eleven programmes which consider the economics of growth.

Why have some of our chief overseas competitors achieved a faster rate of economic growth than Britain? Four economists - from Japan, Western Germany, France, and the U.S.A.- give their views.
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 Nathan Rosenberg, Kazuro Sonoda, Professor Wilhelm Krelle, Bruno Le Blanc

Contributors

Presenter:
Roger Opie
Presenter:
Geoffrey Stuttard
Speaker:
Professor Nathan Rosenberg
Speaker:
Kazuro Sonoda
Speaker:
Professor Wilhelm Krelle
Speaker:
Bruno Le Blanc
Designer:
Jennifer Burningham
Production assistant:
Tony Matthews
Director:
Margaret Jay
Producer:
Clive Parkhurst

Eleven programmes looking into current research on the frontiers of science.

£25 million is being spent by twelve countries on one of the largest and most successful ventures in international technological co-operation. The Dragon Project has culminated in one of the most advanced nuclear reactors ever built.

Contributors

Film editor:
Arthur Solomon
Assistant producer:
Peter Ryan
Producer:
Roy Battersby

Six programmes on British foreign policies from 1945 to the present day.
Presented by Peter Calvocoressi, Member of the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

'The American Alliance is the sheet-anchor of our policy'. Since the war every British Government has expressed this view. Do the Americans think of Britain as a special ally? And how have relations between Britain and the U.S. developed in the rapidly changing world environment of the last twenty years?
Also taking part: Melvin Lasky, Editor of Encounter

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Calvocoressi
Guest:
Melvin Lasky
Designer:
Norman James
Production assistant:
Michael Ryan
Producer:
Julia Gaitskell

The Tough Guy Alan Ladd in This Gun for Hire
with Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar

Based on a story by Graham Greene, this is the film which introduced Alan Ladd in the role of the baby-faced killer with a gun for hire, and started him On his rapid rise to stardom.
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Contributors

Director:
Frank Tuttle
Author:
Graham Greene
Raven:
Alan Ladd
Ellen Graham:
Veronica Lake
Lt. Michael Crane:
Robert Preston
Willard Gates:
Laird Cregar
Alvin Brewster:
Tully Marshall
Senator Burnett:
Roger Imhof
Tommy:
Marc Lawrence

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