Edmund Leach talks of his youth and early years in China. His inerest in anthropology and work with Malinowski and Raymond Firth at the L.S.E. and his move to Cambridge. Fieldwork in Burma and Sri Lanka and his views on structuralism and the work of Levi-Strauss. Edmund Leach talking to Frank Kermode 26th May 1982 (53mins.) Filmed in King's College and Barrington. Generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust.