An evocation of great British journalist James Cameron's love affair with Nehru's India thirty years after it's birth...

"We've learned how to think. Now we've got to re-learn how to feel - if we are going to survive." A highly personal v...

Once the river Tiber washed the walls of the self-styled capital of the western world. Later it was the Thames. Today...

Personal power - how do those who have it feel about using it? Did they seek it? Has it changed them? Was it worth it...

"Man is the only animal who knows he is going to die. It therefore became imperative to live without despair. Thus wa...

"The British are one of the least enthusiastic people in the world. They don't believe in their party system; they do...

Peter Wilson, who has seen more big-time sport than almost anyone in Britain, feels that something has gone wrong wit...

Norman Parkinson, the distinguished fashion photographer, focuses his expert eyes on women. With Vanessa Redgrave, Tw...

When, if ever, will the tide of emigration turn, which now ebbs so fast from rural Ireland?

"Why do I dislike Berlin? Why does the place arouse in me all the prejudiced emotions I so resent in other people? An...

Margaret Drabble narrates this documentary about her own life. The cameras follow her as she revisits the places wher...

People always say 'Shut-up, be quiet, pie in the sky, you'll get there in the end' - but you know, and I know, and ev...

"I have always had a certain loathing of schoolmasters, feeling them to be a corrupt body of creatures on the whole.....

The Member of Parliament for South Worcestershire, who has been described by others as 'the most famous back-bencher ...

"In matters of great importance it's style not sincerity that counts. In law, in politics, in the church... not just ...

First transmitted in 1968, singer and actress Georgia Brown revisits her old childhood home in Whitechapel, East Lond...

The sheer ferocity of a Scarfe cartoon, stripping his subjects of any human dignity and reducing them to a kind of su...

"My generation was liberated by Oxford: but it also confined us and marked us for life. Nothing has ever topped the e...

Through the long days of a Swedish summer "to be flesh in contact with sun is to know fulfilment." The landscape is b...

Do we just like travel for its own sake? Are we increasingly obsessed with the desire for encapsulated movement? As m...

You can have wealth without sophistication, but can you have sophistication without wealth? Charlotte Bingham, daught...

Dom Moraes, poet and journalist, examines his situation as a coloured Englishman who suddenly feels he is an immigran...

Joe Tilson is one of Britain's foremost contemporary artists and is obsessed with the problems of flesh and blood hum...

Romance stopped being romantic when they all started calling it sex. Women are no longer treated as the gentle sex; c...

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The decisions of businessmen affect every one of us. At last a successful tycoon reveals the principles that have gui...

Patrick Moore takes a look at independent thinkers including flat earthers, hollow earthers, belief in a cold sun and...

Hero worship is an essential part of our lives - without heroes we have no great deeds to emulate, we can achieve not...

What makes you laugh? It is always easier to describe humour than to analyse it. Marty Feldman, for many years a succ...

Sir Con O'Neill is one of Britain's top diplomats - British Charge d'Affaires in Peking, British Ambassador to Finlan...

"The nature of a man's life, the nature of a man's mind, depends very largely on the kind of shocks and jokes to whic...

Television, radio, computers, and jet aeroplanes may seem to bring the world to our hearthrug but they also increase ...

Prostitution - pornography - drugs - driving - are all fields in which the law has failed to achieve satisfactory res...

Cars have always been dream symbols for the working American. But today it is not the mass-produced model from Detroi...

Can a woman look after her husband, her children, and her job without one of the three suffering? Shirley Conran, des...

For the past eight years Yvonne Mitchell, the actress and novelist, has lived on the French Riviera. She has watched ...

The novelist and sports writer Brian Glanville fears that the real value of sport is being undermined by the demands ...

Until a few years ago Dr Spock, the legendary baby doctor, was known only for his book on bringing up children, a wor...

At 61, John Creasey, creator of such world-famous figures as 'The Toff' and 'Gideon of the Yard,' is the world's most...

Raymond Williams, novelist and lecturer, thinks university education should be fitted to the demands of real life. He...

The prophets of doom who predict our imminent starvation are wrong. Man can easily feed himself. Miracle wheats, mamm...

Once upon a time there was a middle class who believed that they were part of the ruling system. Mergers, take-overs,...

At the age of 16 he left India to make his home in England. At 20 he won the Hawthornden Prize for poetry while still...

"Today we are not as dependent on animals as we once were. Our approach to animals is largely based on sentiment - we...

Idries Shah, writer and traveller, descendant of the prophet Mahomet, sees our Western way of life through eyes train...

A generation of Communist rule changes many things - but not the real character of the people. George Mikes, writer, ...

Mai Zetterling gives her own provocative views on the world as she sees it - views on marriage, on the pressures of c...

"Pessimism about the future is very fashionable - and very profitable. But if I could have any period of history to l...

Headmaster of Lancing when he was only 33, now headmaster of Marlborough, John Dancy "believes a public school can on...

Up to the beginning of this year, 30-year-old Des Wilson was the director of Shelter, the charity which has done so m...

Anthony Grey was the Reuters correspondent in Peking at the height of China's Cultural Revolution. He was arrested by...

Himself of Afrikaans origin, and as a young man one of the first to oppose racialism in South Africa, writer and expl...

This weekend, between 8,000 and 10,000 people each day will visit Lord Montagu's-home at Beaulieu in Hampshire. Is th...

In this personally authored documentary, John Braine, who is probably best remembered for his first novel, Room at th...

Starting from zero, says Leonardo Ricci, 'is the point every man should arrive at. A man is a man when he finds himse...

What useful purpose is served by the creative artist in society? In a harsh world where millions starve, do poems or ...

It's not unusual for people to come back from Los Angeles with horror stories about violence, pollution and the sheer...

Now that Britain has lost her empire is there a role for us in the world? Lord Caradon, formerly Sir Hugh Foot, who b...

'Almost everybody I know has firm opinions about almost everything. It's better to have halitosis than to have no opi...

'The core of Christianity is the Resurrection,' says Dooley, 'because the Resurrection is about hope and life.' Arthu...

Mark Boxer is the resident cartoonist ('Marc') of The Times, and Associate Editor of the Sunday Times Magazine which ...

'The only thing worth having,' David Franklin asserts, 'is something you've worked to get and can take pride in.' Wor...

Spike Milligan is a very funny serious man and a very serious funny man. For him life's problem is to tiptoe through ...

Allan Prior is a writer of fiction - novels, films, TV plays - but he is probably best known for his scripts for Z Ca...

In our so-called 'Permissive Society', discipline is an unfashionable concept. The emphasis on personal freedom and t...

Lady Antonia Fraser is the best-selling biographer of Cromwell and Mary Queen of Scots. To her, biography is a specia...

Alan Garner, the brilliantly successful author of books that dazzle and haunt children - and haunt adults, too - is a...

During the lifetime of most of us Britain has moved into the ranks of the second-class powers. The decline in our pow...

In the course of an exotic and adventurous journey the wife of the Poet Laureate, astride an Indian hill pony, carrie...

Australian actress Diane Cilento seeks spiritual answers on a communal farm run by followers of GI Gurdjieff, includi...

The friendship between Australia and Britain is dead, declares Australian author Russell Braddon , who has lived here...

Restaurateur and writer, American-born Robert Carrier, illustrates through his own lifelong enjoyment of good eating ...

Adventure, travel, the challenge of the unpredictable: these are the ingredients of Eric Newby's life. As a boy he sa...

A country childhood. A strict religious upbringing. A very English addiction to cricket. A profound love of music, pa...