Max Beloff broadcasts the first of four talks he will be giving in this fortnightly series of commentaries on current affairs

Max Beloff is Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, and Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford. He is author of several books on international affairs including The Great Powers and New Dimensions in Foreign Policy, and is at present working on Imperial Sunset, a study of Britain in world affairs since 1897.

(Next talk: June 25)

followed by an interlude at 8.15