Even before the Gorbachev regime had disintegrated, there was talk of restoring the Russian monarchy, and Prince Nicholas's was one of the names often mentioned. Here he speaks movingly and informatively of the country he regards as his homeland, although his parents had fled before he was born.

We're in Switzerland, Mr. Buckley begins, "unquestionably the smallest nation to exercise such influence ... since the heyday of Portugal and Athens." The mystery is how the country not only survives but prospers when "it seems to violate all the rules."

Taped on May 22, 1990 (New York City, NY) Not as many fireworks as one might have expected from these two friendly antagonists--both guests being Britons who have spent much of their working lives in the United States--but an amusing look at the present state of the "special relationship." CH: "Why can't I go into a supermarket without seeing a picture of Princess Diana, whom I left England to get away from? ... If I go back to England, what do I get? McDonald's hamburgers and American nuclear bases." ... JO: "The reason why the Americans always wanted the British in the European Community was because they would represent [the Americans'] thought, the ideas of free trade and free markets, which would mean that the Community would never be closed to American goods and American capital." Guest(s): 1) Hitchens, Christopher. - columnist for The Nation, author of Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies 2) O'Sullivan, John. - Editor of National Review, former domestic-policy advisor to Prime Minister Thatcher Moderator: 1) Kinsley, Michael E., Senior Editor at The New Republic, co-host of CNN's Crossfire

The semi-annual frolic in which the guests question their host, except that our guests this time seem less interested in tripping up Mr. Buckley than in finding out just what these puzzling conservatives do believe.