Lady Asquith in conversation with KENNETH HARRIS
Still perhaps better remembered as Lady VIOLET BONHAM Carter , Baroness Asquith celebrated her eightieth birthday on April 15.
In this programme she recalls luncheon with Mr. Gladstone when she was six ... talks about her father, who became Prime Minister in 1908 ... about Lloyd George who succeeded him in 1916 ... and about Winston Churchill whom she first met as a girl of nineteen.
Recording of the programme shown on BBC-1 on April 13: produced for television by Margaret Douglas

Lady Asquith Kenneth Harris writes:
I DO NOT know how many people were looking at BBC-1 at 9.30 p.m. on April 13 when Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury began to answer questions from me about her recollections of her life and times; but when the programme ended fifty minutes later seven million viewers were listening to her.
What she said in that programme can be heard again this evening. If my mail bag is anything to go by, many who watched the programme on television will be listening again on radio. Lady Violet is one of those rare people who are history in person. She knew several prime ministers well. She had her own yardstick by which to judge them, being the daughter of a prime minister, having lived for several years in No. 10 Downing Street. Some of her anecdotes are charming, some funny, some pungent, some moving in the extreme-above all those about Winston Churchill, who became an intimate friend of hers when she was a girl, and remained one of her closest friends till the day he died.
Talking to her on four successive afternoons, I could never take my eyes off her; her face, so dramatic, so mobile, so hypnotic, added an extra significance to everything she said. I wondered then whether vision here did some disservice to the sound, pictures almost distracting the listener from the narrative. I wondered whether sound radio may not have been the better medium for her. I look forward to finding out.