... you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blamtno it on you
Fifty years ago Kiphnc's poem If was probably the most quoted. taught and framed set of moral precepts. outside the ten commandments.
Marghanita Laski asksJOAN BAKEWELL SUSAN HIMMELWEIT , JIMMY REID and CANON TREVOR BEESON if Kipling's poem provides any useful moral guidelines for them In 1976. Producer HELEN FRY