A few weeks ago, I wrote in these pages about the fascinating 1970 dialogue between Arnold Toynbee and Japanese professor Kei Wakaizumi, which was later edited and published in book form as Surviving the Future.
More than two years later, Toynbee sat down with George Urban, the Hungarian writer who moved to England in 1948, wrote for Encounter magazine, and worked for the BBC and Radio Free Europe.
The Toynbee-Urban dialogue consisted of twelve radio discussions in 1972 and 1973 that were published in 1974 under the title Toynbee on Toynbee. Urban had familiarized himself with Toynbee's magisterial A Study of History and his lesser works.
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