I. SWORD AND PLOUGHSHARES THE VICEROYS' TOUR

I. SWORDS AND PLOUGHSHARES - THE VICEROY'S TOUR - Music: 'Steadfast & Steady (Waltz)' a blend of the things of peace and the things of war made up the Viceroy's Northern Tour. Meeting the Governor at a Punjab airport. His Excellency went on to inspect a training school for Chinese pilots. The idea started with a conversation between Lord Wavell, when he was Commander-in-chief, and Chiang Kai-Shek, the Generalissimo was on a visit to India, and China's weakness in the air was very much on his mind. The result of that talk was this school. Two flags, two countries, but one idea; to beat the Japs. And these pilots are trained to a hair to do it. But the arts of peace are the abiding things, and the Viceroy was soon among typical Punjab villagers, taking stock of the India n way of life. If you can understand the villager, you can understand India, and getting among them like this is the only way to do it. At Peshawar, Lord Wavell got a present from a man who is one hundred and ten years old. That's a long way back, but Lord Wavell told the gather that he had memories, too, and that went back forty years to when he was a young officer, and he said that they were memories that gave him a good deal of pleasure. Lord Wavell also said that he'd forgotten all his Pushtu except the greeting "May you never be tried". That's a good greeting for a viceroy on tour in these parts where the programme includes riding to the local fair. The treasure of the Indies has always been famous. Well, nowadays we know that the only real treasure of a country like ours is made up of land and cattle, and horses. Back to the more formal side of the tour, although a frontier party can never be strictly formal, which also seems true of the new viceroy on his first tour of India.

II. WORTH HIS WEIGHT IN GOLD

II. WORTH HIS WEIGHT IN GOLD - Music: 'Rienzi Overture'. Kapurthala's ruler gave a birthday party, but the guests who strolled past the marble fountains were not the only lucky ones. His highness is seventy-two years old, and this part of the day was like any other party, a trifle more formal perhaps, but if any guest wanted to go on a spree he could take a ride in this zebra car. But ancient ceremonial decreed a more spectacular celebration of the Ruler's birthday. There was first an intimate puja at the palace, where frock coats gave way to gorgeous sherwanis, after that, His Highness was weighed. Arguing that a good ruler is worth his weight in gold, gold was put into the other scale according to custom, and at the end of the day distributed among the poor.

III. HAZARE MAKES CRICKET HISTORY

III. HAZARE MAKES CRICKET HISTORY - Music: 'My Country'. Record crowds watched record cricket at Bombay's Pentangular, and here's a grandstand seat for you to watch big names making big scores. The rest going out to field. The Hindus kept them running about so much it began to look like an athletic meeting. Vijay Merchant and Adhikari they made them do most of the running. Vijay Merchant in action. Watch how Adhikari backs him up. They went on doing this for five and a half hours, and collected three hundred and forty-five runs, yes, it's a record, but there were so many records that the crowd needed a slide rule to keep check on them. Adhikari did more than keep his end up, he kept it level; here's the score board to prove it. Adhikari's out and merchant's made a new record for the series. The score board showed the Hindus at five hundred and eighty one declared, and everybody thought the match was over, but they reckoned without the hero of the day. Good as his game was, that hero wasn't merchant, here seen meeting the Governor. In fact it wasn't any of the winning Hindu side, Hazare was the man, and what a hero. When the Hindus went out to field on Monday morning the Rest were in such a bad way that they had to follow on. Then the Hazare hurricane started to blow. With his brother defying a demoralising ring of fielders trying to catch him out, Hazare broke his own record, merchant's record and the ground record; in fact, he very nearly broke the bowler's hearts into the bargain. This is a run-a-minute cricket. Hazare got his century before lunch, and wound up with three hundred and ninety runs to his credit, with thirty boundaries to send the crowd into wild cheers. The Rest lost the match, but the crowd gained a hero. They'd been looking at him and cheering him all day, but they wouldn't go home until they'd seen him just once again. A record breaker is one thing, but a man who makes a record then breaks it himself in the same tournament, that certainly something to shout about.

IV. A WELCOME HARVEST

IV. A WELCOME HARVEST - Music: ' Sleeping Beauty'. Two sidelights on our country that should be food for the thoughtful. Here's the Sind harvest, and never was a good harvest more welcome. Recent events have taught us a stinging lesson that if we are to be proud that Indians make up one fifth of the population of the earth, then we've got to have food for the fifth. We have got to grow it ourselves, and when I say we, that means mainly people like these. But even if you're not the owner of broad acres, it's practically certain that you can help to grow more food. And here's the other sidelight. It's also from Sind, and it's the Governor's Durbar. Sir Hugh Dow is presenting rewards for meritorious service, and behind the ceremony lies the long story of the battle with the Hurs. Most of the people receiving sanads here, helped in that battle. Sind is peaceful now, and India can rely on that harvest to help her people. The presents that the Governor is giving are a relic of the days when things weren't written down, but a shawl or a sword was a symbol of honour. Let us hope that the days of brigandage and lawlessness are relics of the past, too.

V. FOOTSTEPS OF TIME

V. THE FOOTSTEPS OF TIME - Music: 'Mountain King'. Step by step they're telling a story, treading out a legend of Old Ceylon, a half-forgotten tale of the Gods. Each step is a chapter, each wave of the hand a paragraph. The old kings of India, it's said, took four great steps around their throne when they were anointed. That meant that they took possession of the world - North, East, South and West. That's the sort of story they're telling here; blood, battle and disaster; triumph and rejoicing - it's all smoothed down to a twist of the hips. In this Kandyan temple you can hear the footsteps of Time itself.