A diary begins as an intimate personal possession. It may become a valuable social document. Diarists who contribute to this programme include Samuel Pepys, Fanny Burney, Queen Victoria, Francis Kilvert, Captain Scott, Anne Frank and Pamela Hansford Johnson, Sir Albert Richardson.
Interviewer, Kenneth Kendall
Compere, Leonard Maguire
Previously broadcast on January 10
10.15-10.45 In View: a film on the work of a provincial art school.
(Rowridge, Brighton)
10.15-10.46 Scan: life in the Midlands.
(Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree)