The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Subjects include: Parliamentary affairs, particularly relating to the Suez Crisis and Cyprus; a visit to Algeria, Oct 1956.

Subjects include: the new Government of [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; visit to forces in Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, the Persian Gulf, Aden [Adan], British Somaliland [later Somalia] and Kenya, Sept-Oct 1957; visit to Cyprus and Muscat [Masqat] and Oman, Dec 1957-Jan 1958; visits to Belize and the West Indies, May 1959.

Subjects include: tour of the Pacific, Sep-Oct 1960, covering Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides [later Vanuatu], New Caledonia, Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands [later Kiribati and Tuvalu], Tonga, Australia and New Zealand (see also AMEJ 1/5/13-14); negotiations over Cyprus.

Includes: arrangements for visit; statement by NK on Labour’s policy on Cyprus; biographical and background briefings; programme for visit; correspondence with individuals including Pauline Green and Dimitris Christofias, General Secretary of the Communist Party (AKEL). Also includes a copy of the Socialist International report on their visit to Cyprus, 1989.

Includes: briefing for and notes of a meeting with George Vassilou, President of Cyprus, on attempts to reach a settlement in Cyprus, with earlier material, including a meeting in March 1988; briefing for a meeting with Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan; briefing for Arts Council lunch.

The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.