Programme in homage to Yugoslavia, written and produced by Louis MacNeice
This programme is a testament to the courage of the southern Slav peoples, a courage which has endured through centuries of military and political turmoil, and which is today as forthright and vigorous as ever. At the end of the fourteenth century these people, defeated by the Turks. at the battle of Kossovo, lost their political independence for four centuries. Nevertheless, their spiritual independence was undestroyed and has survived ever since. No one will ever forget the epic retreat of the Serbian Army in 1915, when, rather than surrender to the Austrians and Germans, it crossed its L frontiers to continue the fight. Today - the Yugoslav nation stands apart from its quisling leaders and continues a resistance which may well influence the whole course of the war.