Hayes on Sunday

Title

Hayes on Sunday

Genre

Interview; Discussion

TX Date

31 Jul 1977

Year of production

1977

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Duration

00:27:18

Description

Brian Hayes is joined by Lord Fenner Brockway who describes his conversion to socialism. He describes what is wrong with the economic system, and Stalin’s effect within the Soviet Union. Dr David Abrahamson talks to Hayes about his book, Nixon vs Nixon, which is a psychobiography about the former US president. Gambling is the next subject discussed, with a gambling addict named Jack, who describes his spiral into addiction, and the rehabilitation process through Gamblers Anonymous. Other addicts describe the effect on their lives and families. Mark Brown is a lecturer and consultant in learning methods, and has written a book about the human memory, entitled Memory Matters. Here he describes the scientific process of the memory. Harry Stopes-Roe, Vice-Chairman of the British Humanist Association, explains the humanist’s faith in the human race. The debate around where our species originated is discussed, with religion playing a strong part.

Contributors

Brian Hayes; Fenner Brockway; David Abrahamson; Harry Stopes-Roe; Mark Brown

Keywords

Books; Authors; Religion; Socialism; Joseph Stalin; Biographies; Fenner Brockway; David Abrahamson; Gambling; Gamblers Anonymous; Memory; Mark Brown; Humanism; British Humanist Association; Nixon vs Nixon; Memory Matters

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