Have you any reflections on the origins of In Our Time?
began after I had been fired from . When I was put in the House of Lords, the powers in charge of the BBC decided that a Labour peer could not introduce . There were some comments about it being a political programme, which it certainly was not! But I had had a good run and didn't moan. After some protest in the press, James Boyle, then-controller of BBC Radio 4, offered me what was cheerfully known as ‘the death slot': Thursday morning at nine o'clock.
