Portrait of London

This is the CBS radio workshop This is possibly one of the most lovely views. I Thought it was good from Westminster Bridge But I should always now think that Big Ben has a very special one I'm looking directly down on Westminster Bridge over the Thames I can see St. Paul's and it is the perfect time of day the end of the day and the sun is shining

and everything looks pretty alright from up here. CBS Radio presents the CBS Radio Workshop, dedicated to man's imagination, the theatre of the mind.

Tonight from England, the workshop presents Miss Sarah Churchill's Portrait of London, daughter of one of the 20th century's greatest statesmen and former Prime Minister of Great Britain. Miss Churchill has established herself as a talented and sensitive actress in both America and England. Because of American interest in the great cities of Europe, we have asked

Miss Churchill a question about her home. Recorded from London, here is her reply. You ask me, what does London mean to me? Well, it's the city in which I was born and have lived for more than half of my life. Even though now I am a wonder and perhaps should be able to take a detached view of it, I can't. Whenever I return to London, I am simply coming

home. However, since you have started me thinking, whenever London is mentioned, or the chimes of Big Ben ring out from a newsreel or radio, I see a large city, mostly grey in colour, except for the vivid splashes of green when the parks are in leaf or bloom.

So when I think of London, perhaps it is the parks that flash most quickly through my mind. Perhaps this is because I was a child here and spent many happy hours playing in them. I've always felt that London had a very special tempo of her own, somewhere in a football crowd or racing crowd or in the Hubble bubble of Covent Garden Market in the early morning, or