Basil Boothroyd presents The Levity and Gravity of Sydney Smith, the 19th-century clergyman and reformer whom Lord Macaulay classed as a satirist second only to Swift. ' The Sloth spends its life in trees. He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and passes his life in suspense ... like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop."
Sydney Smith is played by Colin Blakely
Producer peter DE ROSA (First broadcast in 1977)