Historical Inevitability: The Role of Great Men in History

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A Marvellous Decade 1838–1848

History as an Excuse

Freedom and its Betrayal

Don Giovanni in Aix-en-Provence

• Talk
• Recording dates: 30/8/49, 26/1/50 (the original tape was accidentally destroyed, so IB had to re-record the talk in a mobile van in Oxford, on the day it was broadcast)
• First transmission: 9.25 pm 26/1/50 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 30 minutes [20 minutes Radio Times]
• Producer: Anna Kallin
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives

England in a Two-Power World

• Discussion with two other speakers, commissioned by the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council
• Recording date: 21/3/49
• First transmission: 9.30 pm 22/3/49
• Series: Crossroads of the Future

The Anglo-American Predicament

Belinsky (1810–1848)

• Talk
• Recording date: 29/5/47
• First transmission: 7.05 pm 25/6/47 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 20 minutes
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Publication: ‘The Man Who Became a Myth’, Listener 38 (1947), 23–5 = Bibliography 27

Lassalle

• Review of David Footman, The Primrose Path
• First transmission: 8.55 pm 17/12/46 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 20 minutes [5 minutes Radio Times]
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives