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ASKING THE WORLD

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The second in a new series of programmes in which an audience in Britain questions speakers in this country and overseas on matters of common interest
In this broadcast an audience composed mainly of students from Morley College, London, puts questions to
Olivier Todd author and critic
IN PARIS
Norman Podhoretz literary critic: formerly literary editor of Commentary Magazine: reviewer for The Reporter, The New Yorker and Partisan Review
IN NEW YORK
Gunnar Heckscher
Professor of Political Science in the University of Stockholm, and Conservative Member of the Swedish Parliament
IN STOCKHOLM
David Thomson
Master of Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge
IN LONDON
Chairman in London,
John Morris
Devised by Norman Macdonald
This programme will be rebroadcast in Sweden by Sveriges Radio.

Contributors

Unknown:
Olivier Todd
Unknown:
Norman Podhoretz
Unknown:
Gunnar Heckscher
Unknown:
David Thomson
Unknown:
John Morris
Unknown:
Norman MacDonald

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