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The social and cultural setting, Krishan Kumar; the literary scene, John Holloway; tradition and the proliferation of theory, Graham Martin; the fatalism of George Orwell, D.S. Savage; Patrick White, John Holloway; Samuel Beckett - the need to fail, Gabriel Josipovici; F.R. Leavis and English, Geoffrey Strickland; Anthony Powell and Angus Wilson, Graham Martin; Welsh bards in hard times - Dylan Thomas and R.S. Thomas, C.B. Cox; Iris Murdoch - the limits of contrivance, S.W. Dawson; Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer, Robert Taubman; India and the novel, William Walsh; the English stage company and the dramatic critics, Oliver Neville; Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill - an antithesis, Martin Dodsworth; Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson - realism and art, Michael Kirkham; V.S. Naipaul and the politics of fiction, Gamini Salgado; V.S. Naipaul - postscript, Winifred Whitehead; two Nigerian writers - Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, Gilbert Phelps; recent Nigerian writing, Winifred Whitehead; creativity in children's writing and contemporary culture, David Holbrook; books for younger readers, Bernard T. Harrison; John Montague, Seamus Heaney and Irish past, Graham Martin; Seamus Heaney - postscript, Graham Martin; losing the Bible, Denys Thompson; the book market, Per Gedin; the post-war English novel, Gilbert Phelps; time after time - recent British fiction, Michael Wood; some aspects of poetry since the War, Charles Tomlinson; Wittgenstein and English philosphy, Michael Tanner; criticsim now - the abandonment of tradition?, Martin Dodsworth; literature and the recent study of language, Ronald Hepburn; autobiography - quest for identity, Peter Abbs; broadcast drama, Roger Knight, Broadcast drama in the 1980s and 1990s, Philip Purser; the springs of life - a theme in the operas of Britten and Tippett, Wilfred Mellers.