London Daily Telegraph, Friday 17 April 1959 [30min]
Peter Snow returns with a series that brings alive stories found in individual newspapers from history. He talks with veteran BBC reporter Charles Wheeler about his memories of the race to send back the story of the Dalai Lama's escape from Chinese-held Tibet to India. Why had the stiff-upper-lipped Dr Frank Stableford, inventor of the world-famous golf scoring system that bears his name, committed suicide? Plus, zoologist Desmond Morris on his part in the 1950s revolution in broadcasting about animals, and news of pop star Marty Wilde's corns and fallen arches.
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