Recording of the ninth of a special BBC feature series under the direction of Laurence Gilliam, broadcast weekly in the BBC North American Service and re-broadcast in the United States by the National Broadcasting Company
Radio picture of Britain seen through American eyes, written by Louis MacNeice and directed by Laurence Gilliam, with Leslie Howard as narrator. Music composed by Benjamin Britten, and played by the London Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Muir Mathieson).