for St. George's Day, 1941
In praise of courage-In praise of the countryside-In praise of liberty Arranged and produced by Laurence Gilliam from the works of William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Cobbett, John Masefield, G. K. Chesterton, J.B. Priestley, and others, and the music of Sir Edward Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst and others. On this day that is England's, here is a programme dedicated to England and all she stands for - the more stirring because English blood is being spilled this day on land and on the seas in defence of liberty
This English Pageant will unfold her glorious history; will tell of the English countryside, and of stirring deeds the round world over, of heroism shown at Dunkirk even as at Agincourt.
So the English Pageant will pass - a succession of men and things worthy to be remembered: soldiers statesmen, poets, cathedrals, and villages. A kaleidoscope of colour, rich and moving, progressing through the centuries with the unity of a common inheritance.