The second of four programmes in which Lord Home reflects on 50 years of political life.
In 1956 the Prime Minister. tmmm
Sir Anthony Eden , set up a Cabinet Committee to handle the British response to the seizure of the Suez Canal hv Egypt.
Lord Home was a member of that committee and remained at tne centre of the discussion and action throughout the period of the Suez
Crisis. He talks to David Dilks about those events and recalls his appointment as Foreign Secretary under Harold Macmillan - an appointment which one newspaper called ' the most reckless appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his favourite horse a Consul'.
Rostrum cameraman KEN MORSE Picture research VALERIE SMITH Maps CHRISTINE FONTAINE Film editor ALAN MARTIN Producer JOHN WALKER
(David Dilks is Professor of International History at Leeds University)