Six programmes on themes and variations from the lives of the British in South East
Asia, in the days of the Empire, in the words of some who were there. 1: Slow Boat to China: Foundations and Beginnings
' And at last over the horizon about 12 D'clock in the morning a little cluster of trees appeared. Brilliant sunshine, blue sea. huge enormous
Asian sky of clouds, and clustering under it this little block of land:
South East Asia, The very beginning of the great romantic east. the Island empires of which I dreamed.'
Narrator Garard Green Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS , BBC
Radiophonic Workshop
Compiled by Charles ALLEN Producer MICHAEL MASON (Krpeat. ' Chummertes. Sarongs and Bajus ' next Saturday)