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Wealth in Britain focuses on four main issues. How do the wealthy become such? How ...important is inheritance and how can it be justified? What are the advantages of wealth to the wealthy and also to society in general? And, finally, what are the arguments for and against taxing wealth? These questions are answered, in separate interviews, by three millionaires and by four economists in discussion. The three wealthy men are Nigel Broackes, Chairman of Trafalgar House Investments, Robert Maxwell, C
Derek Corcoran introduces the programme, he introduces Donald Broadbent. Donald Bro...adbent begins to discuss some of his work in the study of memory. Broadbent explains and performs a memory experiment. A subject is first shown Russian and corresponding English letters on cards. He is then shown the Russian letters alone and asked to remember their English equivalent. Broadbent briefly sums up the results. He then shows a graph which indicate the results of many similar experiments. Broadbent
This programme demonstrates the use of a minicomputer in two different psychology l...aboratories.
This programme looks at the life of Buffon, the most important French natural histo...rian of the 18th century. Director of the Jardin du Roi in Paris, and author of an Histoire Naturelle in more than thirty volumes, Buffon combined the elegance of an 18th century gentleman with the thoroughness and practicality of a rigorous scientist. His sense of style made him famous in his own lifetime and his qualities as a scientist paved the way for 19th century thinkers such as Darwin. The programme includ
