
If you want a jumbo-sized, home-made demonstration of how your brain works, you could do a lot worse than watch this report from Brian Redhead for the Tonight programme.
The central teaching aid is a massive model of a brain made from aluminium plates, cables, blinking lights and speakers blasting odd snatches of sound, towering over a Brian as he reveals how our senses and memory work.
Excerpt taken from Tonight, originally broadcast Thursday, 3 October 1963, on BBC Two.
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