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Talk by Michael Grant
' In my life,' Mommsen declared in his will, ' in spite of my external successes
I have failed.' Michael Grant , Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University, speaks of Mommsen's qualities as a historian and of the grounds for his sense of failure. This is a new version or the talk broadcast last November on the fiftieth anniversary of Mommsen death.

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First of two talks on Israel by Lord Kinross
It was a young Israeli who, after visiting Europe for the first time, described its countries as ' finished — in the sense of buildings built, land cultivated, factories in production, and so on. In this first report on his recent visit to Israel Lord Kinross describes it in the context of the many unfinished' countries of the Middle East and North Africa.

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