CONTENTS

Foreword

A Note on the Text

Acknowledgements

Chronology

Death and destruction
Whistle and I’ll Come to You, BBC1, 7 May 1968

My day
Vogue, 1 October 1971

Communication without words
Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge, 17 February 1989

Evacuee
The Evacuees, 1968

Views
Listener, 19 December 1968

Dickens
BBC Radio 3, 31 May 1970

A bit of a giggle
Twentieth Century, July 1961

Intestinal ethics
Spectator, 20 January 1961

Reflections
California Institute of Technology, April 1999

Trailing clouds of glory?
New Yorker, 31 August 1963

Shadows of doubt
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, BBC4, 11 October 2004

Views and reviews
Vogue, August 1967

Aboard the Victory O
Olivier: In Celebration, 1987

In cold print
Listener, 17 March 1966

King Lear in rehearsal
Squiggle Foundation, London, 11 March 1989

Foreword to Ivan
May 1986

I won’t pay for the trip: no chemical routes to paradise
Vogue, 1 September 1967

The strongest influence in my life
BBC Radio 4, 27 May 1975

The heat-death of the universe
Beyond the Fringe, 1960

Foreword to On the Side of the Angels
2012


New York Review of Books, 20 February 1964

Directing Shakespeare
Interviewed by Ann Pasternak Slater, Quarto, September 1980 129

Man: the double animal
Are Hierarchies Necessary?, BBC Radio 3, 3 July 1972

Beyond dispute
Times Literary Supplement, 27 July 1967

West side stories
New Statesman, 8 February 1963

Where is thy sting?
Spectator, 3 March 1961

Mesmerism in nineteenth-century England
BBC Radio 3, 24 October 1973

Valete
Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, 29 August 1983

Native medicine
The Body in Question, BBC2, 15 January 1979

Producing opera
Interviewed by Harold Rosenthal, Opera, October–November 1977

Self-recognition
On Reflection, 1998

A conversation with Susan Sontag
Monitor, BBC1, 17 November 1964

Jokes and joking: a serious laughing matter
Queens University, Belfast, August 1987

On Chekhov
Subsequent Performances, 1986

The horror story
Interviewed by Dr Christopher Evans, BBC Radio 3, 23 December 1971

Can English satire draw blood?
Observer, 1 October 1961

A conversation with Richard Dawkins
The Atheism Tapes, BBC4, 8 November 2004

Satire’s brightest star: Peter Cook
Guardian, 10 January 1995

The call of the wild
New York Review of Books, 16 September 1976

Alice in wonderland
Vogue, December 1966

Breaking out of the box
Interviewed by William F. Condee, Theatre Design and Technology, Winter 1991

Cambridge diary
Varsity, 6 November 1954

Alternative worlds
Royal Institution, London, 6 April 1971

On rehearsing
Subsequent Performances, 1986

The uses of pain
Conway Hall, London, 20 November 1973

Foreword to Voices of Victorian London
2011

Plays and players
Non-Verbal Communication, 1972

Onwards and upwards?
Vogue, 15 October 1966

Q&A
Various dates and venues

Notes

Bibliography