‘Memory is a highly selective instrument’
Natural Law – What history has taught us – Magna Carta – Maxwell Fyfe’s early life in Edinburgh & Sutherland – Non Semper Imbres – WWI (Sergeant O’Pikes I) – His journey from Oxford to Westminster – Safety Canon – WWII (Sergeant O’Pikes II)
VOICES
Narrated by Sue Casson
David Maxwell Fyfe : Robert Blackmore
Commentary by Tom Blackmore
WORDS
David Maxwell Fyfe’s Speech to the American Bar Association in Westminster Hall, 1957
Preface to Duke of Sutherland’s book, Looking Back 1957
A Political Adventure (David Maxwell Fyfe’s autobiography)
Published in 1964
MUSIC
Magna Carta
Words from translated excerpt of Magna Carta 1215
Set to music and played by Sue Casson
Sung by Lily and Sue Casson
Non Semper Imbres
Poem by James Logie Robertson
Set to music and played by Sue Casson
Sung by Lily and Sue Casson
Safety Canon
Written and played by Sue Casson
Sergeant O’Pikes I & II
Poem by Neil Munro
Set to music by Sue Casson
Sung by Andrew Bolton
Recorded at Lana Banana Studios
Engineered by Henry Willard