Subjects include: MS's memories of 1st Lord De L'Isle, at the opening of an arboretum at Penshurst Place [Kent]; MS's election to the Company of Skinners; the 120th anniversary of Winston Churchill's birth; the theatre as an international commodity and means of communication (the Tacitus Lecture, 1995); Churchill's painting; the 30th anniversary of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust; tribute to Sir Fitzroy Maclean.