by Brian Urquhart with Sally Hardcastle Brian Urquhart , Under
Secretary General for Special Political Affairs at the United Nations, has been with the UN since it was established 40 years ago this month.
Demobbed from the army in 1945, he found himself pitched into the early frantic days of the setting up of the new organisation. He became Personal Assistant to the first Secretary General, Trygve Lie. In the first of three programmes he talks to
Sally Hardcastle about the challenges the UN faced soon after it was established. Film cameraman TONY MAYNE Film sound CLIVE DERBYSHIRE Research MONA ADAMS Film editorJON KENT
Producer JOHN WALKER