the play for this program, saint joan, by george bernard shaw. special guest, julie harris. now your host mr. jose ferrer. saint joan is essentially about sainthood, but there is a certain romantic quality to it as george bernard shaw sweeps his audience along in an almost poetic flight. it is not a biography in the sense that you can turn to the play for an accurate reporting of the facts, rather shaw selected the facts which suited his purpose. he approaches joan, his protagonist, historically, but develops the character mainly in terms of ideological clashes. primarily, shaw is interested in joan as someone who imposes her ideas on history. she is led by the voices of st. catherine, st. margaret, and st. michael who instructed her to acquire a horse, soldier's clothing with armor, and an army and drive the english out of france. so her actions are based on her faith in her voices. shaw was a co-director for the first london production in 1924 with sybil thorndike in the title role, and he reminded her that joan was a sturdy, independent 19-year-old woman, not a sweet angel

he was very -- sorry, george bernard shaw liked each other. one was a meeting -- shaw was a very strange man. they understood they worked the same side of the street. they both hate the anglo-american culture, and for making this led to a p reason -- prussian shaw led towards stalin. here's talking about the aftermath of the war. i, too, like the leaders of germany, had grave doubts about democracy. it certainly dawned on me, somewhat to my surprise, that the whole body of my doctrine i preach is fundamentally antianglo-saxoing n, as if i had a spiritual home at all, it's in the land of the ancestors. when world war i started, i was whooping for the kyeser, and kept it up so long there was not any freech speech left. unfortunatelily, he suffered a price. columns repressed and presented himself as a martyr. most of what's written about him today ignores all of this. let me jump ahead. anyone want to talk about the scopes trial later? if so, i'll stop and talk later. interested in the scopes trial? >> [inaudible] >> i'm the boss, okay. i'll pick

the first book on george bernard shaw in america was written by the same man, h.l. mencken. h.l. mencken made shaw famous in america before he was famous in england. i won't go into shock today but he plays an important role in the book. what people found appealing in nietzsche was the sense of a call for a new aristocracy. old aristocracy crumbled under the impact of modernization. he wanted a new aristocracy. ag wells's writings if you remember are full of this, calling for the new samurai, calling for a new elite to run the world. in never really stops. if you are reading our board, i hesitate to mention his name here, when you are reading al gore on climate change you are reading h. g. wells, bore's solutions to climate change our wells's, creating a global governing body. the set of liberal emotional attachment, political libido, let me emphasize the phrase, a political libido of liberalism coalesce in the wake of world war i in this angry repudiation of progressivism and woodrow wilson. the very term liberal in its modern usage was cleaned by writers and intellectuals who d

the first book on george bernard shaw in america was written by the same man, mencken. mencken made shaw famous in america before shaw was famous in england. i won't go into shaw today, just suffice to say he plays an important role in the book. what people found appealing in nietzsche was the sense of his call for a new aristocracy. the old aristocracy has obviously crumbled under the impact of modernization. he wanted a new aristocracy. and h.g. wells' writings, if you remember as a kid, are full of this. remember? he's calling for the new samurai. he's calling for this new elite to run the world. he never really stops. and he's picked up a few -- when you're reading al gore, i hesitate to mention his name here, when you're reading al gore on climate change, you're reading h.g. wells. gore's solutions to climate change are wells' solutions, creating global governing body. the set of liberal and emotional attachments, the political libido -- let me emphasize that phrase -- coalesced in the wake of world war i in the angry repudiation of of progressivism and modern -- a

he was very -- sorry, george bernard shaw liked each other. ne was a meeting -- shaw was a very strange man. they understood they worked the same side of the street. they both hate the anglo-american culture, and for making this led to a p reason -- prussian shaw led towards stalin. here's talking about the aftermath of the war. i, too, like the leaders of germany, had grave doubts about democracy. it certainly dawned on me, somewhat to my surprise, that the whole body of my doctrine i preach is fundamentally antianglo-saxoing n, as if i had a spiritual home at all, it's in the land of the ancestors. when world war i started, i was whooping for the kyeser, and kept it up so long there was not any freech speech left. unfortunatelily, he suffered a price. columns repressed and presented himself as a martyr. most of what's written about him today ignores all of this. let me jump ahead. anyone want to talk about the scopes trial later? if so, i'll stop and talk later. interested in the scopes trial? >> [inaudible] >> i'm the boss, okay. i'll pick u