by JOHN KEAY
The second of seven programmes with and Timothy Bateson
Narrator JOHN ROWE
Thomas Manning was the first Englishman ever to reach the Tibetan capital Lhasa. ' Some people go to Yorkshire for four years and never come to London all the while,' wrote Manning en route for Canton,'I go to China. What's the difference to our London friends? '
During the months he spent in Lhasa, Manning was constantly In fear for his life, but he did meet the Dalai Lama, a boy of . about 7 years old.
I could have wept,' he wrote, ' through the strangeness of sensation.' Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Ian Ogilvy is in ' Design for Living ' at the Globe Theatre, London)
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