Edited and narrated by Francis Watson
The recorded voices of those taking part include: Rajendra Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Earl of Halifax, Sir Robert Broomfield, G. V. Mavalankar, Acharya Kripalani, Zakir Husain, G. D. Birla, M. R. Jayakar, Kaka Kalelkar, C. Rajagopalachari, Raja Hutheesingh, S. Dutta, B.C. Roy, Pyarelal Nayar, Sudir Ghosh, Sushila Nayar, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, K. Shridharani, Anasuyaben Sarabai, Shankarlal Banker, Raheina Tyabji, Miraben (Miss Slade), Eric da Costa, Verrier Elwin, Louis Fischer, Maurice Frydman, Glorney Bolton, and Reginald Reynolds
Production by Maurice Brown
(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 21)
by Joan Robinson, Reader in Economics in the University of Cambridge
The recent report of the Monopolies Commission on the Supply of Certain Industrial and Medical Gases drew attention to the problem of ensuring that large single-firm monopolies act in the public interest. Mrs. Robinson, a former member of the Commission, examines the various suggestions put forward to this end.
An interview by Henry Mayhew
Adapted by Douglas Cleverdon from Mayhew's "London Labour and the London Poor"
with Norman Shelley and Carleton Hobbs
Douglas Whittaker (flute)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Norman Del Mar
Part 1
A series of three talks on the principles of ecology and its future significance by Charles S. Elton
1 - The Invaders
During the past century man has been causing with increasing effect one of the greatest convulsions in the distribution of the world's flora and fauna that has occurred since the Cretaceous Period.
Part 2
by Stanley Rubinstein
Are solicitors gentlemen? If so, why?
Alexander Pavlovitch (violin)
Dushan Trboyevitch (piano)