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September 8, 2008 : Mind Changers

Claudia Hammond presents a series looking at the development of the science of psychology during the 20th century. 3: The Bobo Doll. Claudia revisits the first experiment to broach the subject of how children respond to TV and computer game violence. Albert Bandura's ground-breaking Bobo Doll experiment in 1961 first alerted the world to the dangers of imitative behaviour.

BBC Radio 4 · 21:30 - 21:58


September 10, 2008 : Big Bang Day: The Great Big Particle Adventure

First of three programmes in which comedian and physicist Ben Miller explores the workings of the new LHC atom smasher at CERN in Switzerland and what it is designed to discover. He looks at the Higgs Particle and how it enables atoms, molecules and our entire world to exist.

BBC Radio 4 · 21:00 – 21:30



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