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Winston Churchill's memoirs reviewed by Sir Charles Webster

Today the first volume of Mr. Churchill's memoirs of the Second World War is published in this country under the title of "The Gathering Storm". It covers the years between the wars, and the war months of 1939-40 up to Mr. Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister.

(Sir Charles Webster, K.C.M.G., holds the Stevenson Chair of International History in London University.)

Contributors

Subject:
Winston Churchill
Presenter:
Sir Charles Webster

('The Departure')
Comedy opera in one act by Eugen d'Albert
Libretto by Count Sporck
Orchestra of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
Conducted by Walter Martin
Scene: the garden room of a castle in Central Germany. Time: towards the end of the eighteenth century

Contributors

Unknown:
Eugen D'Albert
Conducted By:
Walter Martin
Gilfen:
Hans Herbertfiedler
Luise his wife:
Margot Guilleaume
Trott:
Wilhelm Luckert

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