Tibet
Few Europeans have travelled widely in Tibet, partly because it is geographically remote but mainly because since the Chinese invasion it has been a closed country. It retains, however, a strong hold on the European imagination and those who have once come under its spell keep in touch as far as possible. Three such men discuss it in this programme.
H.R.H. Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark first visited Tibet in 1938; has a home in Kalimpong from which he conducts research into the lives of the 20,000 Tibetans who visit the market there each year; was leader of the Danish Scientific Mission to Afghanistan and Central Asia in 1953 Marco Pallis musician, and author of a book about Tibet entitled Peaks and Lamas; has stayed and studied in a number of Tibetan lamaseries and published a book in Tibetan
Hugh Richardson C.I.E., O.B.E., D.S.O.
Officer in charge of the British Mission to Lhasa, 1936-40 and 1946-47, after that represented the Indian Government in Tibet; part-author of a Tibetan-English dictionary
Chairman,
Colonel Laurens van der Post C.B.E.