Whither is fled the visionary gleam
Where is it now, the glory and the dreamt
The writer and historian. Ian Grimble , went to Iran in August 1978 to teach English at a college in Tehran. He remained there, the only British teacher in the country, throughout the year of the Islamic revolution.
In the first of three talks he describes his experiences as a teacher and the changes he saw in his pupils' attitudes and thought during that time.
followed by an interlude