Subjects include: warnings on Churchill's actions, 1947; Britain's post-war economic problems; British policy on Palestine; the threat from the Soviet Union; the future of India; the South African General Elections, 1948 and 1953; joint state and private enterprise projects in South Africa; the policies of the South African Nationalist Government; apartheid; Seretse Khama's marriage [to Ruth Williams]; the Korean War; tribute to Jan Smuts; the legacy of Empire; the state of the South African United Party; fears about the resurgence of Germany; the Suez Crisis; local events in Queenstown.