It would be interesting to know how much creative work was produced in the most unlikely surroundings of prison-camps during the war. It is certain that even under such conditions the thoughts of many of the prisoners naturally turned towards the gentler arts-painting, music, or literature.

Mr. Paul Edmonds, who is to broadcast tonight, was with the garrison in Kut, and spent two and a half years as a prisoner in the hands of the Turks. During that time he not merely wrote stories, but composed music, produced plays, trained a choir and learnt to draw. He is the author of 'Peacocks and Pagodas' and 'To the Land of the Eagle,' both of which he illustrated himself.