"Let me now disclose the gifts reserved for age
To set a crown upon your lifetime's effort"
(Four Quartets: T.S. Eliot)
In which three distinguished octogenarians reflect on what they have learned from life, and speak of the compensations of growing old.
The Very Rev. Dr. A.C. Craig, M.C., sometime Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
The Very Rev. Dr. W.R. Matthews, K.C.V.O., who this year retired from the Deanery of St. Paul's
The Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Micklem, sometime Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, and Chairman of the Liberal Party
BBC film
(Repeated tonight at 11.22)