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Greenwich Time Signal; The Travellers: Tibet

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A discussion.

H.R.H. Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark - first visited Tibet in 1938; has a home in Kalimpong from which he conducts research into the lives of the 20,000 Tibetans who visit the market there each year; was leader of the Danish Scientific Mission to Afghanistan and Central Asia in 1953.

Marco Pallis - musician, and author of a book about Tibet entitled Peaks and Lamas; has stayed and studied in a number of Tibetan lamaseries and published a book in Tibetan.

Hugh Richardson, C.I.E., O.B.E. - Officer in charge of the British Mission to Lhasa, 1936-40 and 1946-47, after that represented the Indian Government in Tibet; part-author of a Tibetan-English dictionary.

Chairman, Col. Laurens van der Post, C.B.E.

(A shortened version of the recorded broadcast of August 4)

Contributors

Panellist:
H.R.H. Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark
Panellist:
Marco Palli
Panellist:
Hugh Richardson
Chairman:
Col. Laurens van der Post

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