4 NOVEMBER 1949, Page 14

RADIO

Thus," I said to myself while listening, " will read better when the Listener prints it." And so it did. It was the first of the new series of Rcith Lectures, given by Mr. Robert Birley, the Headmaster of Eton, on the great and timely subject, Britain in Europe: Reflections on the Development of a European Society. Mr. Birley's treatment was massive ; but the mass was, somehow, immovable. I thought that perhaps I was myself off form as a listener, for broadcast talks such as this demand an intellectual performance from the audience as well as from the speaker. But of the second of these talks I felt the same: mole ruit sua.