' I have imagined myself in turn, a liberal, a socialist or a pacifist, but I have never been any of these things in any profound sense. Always, the sceptical intellect, when I have most wished it silent, has whispered doubts to me . . . has transported me into a desolate solitude.'
Bertrand Russell died ten years ago at the age of 97. He lived through an era stretching from Glad-stone to Sir Harold Wilson.
Anthony Howard looks back over his life and reassesses his work and standing through the eyes of Sir Alfred Ayer , A. J. P. Taylor , The Rt Hon Michael Foot , HP, Dora Russell , and those most closely associated with him. Producer MICHAEL GANDON. BBC Birmingham