A series of eight autobiographical films in which Malcolm Muggeridge looks back over his life, and over his 50 years as a journalist and broadcaster - featuring extracts from some of his many Programmes.
7: 1971-1978 - Heroes and Heroines. A Satirist Satirised. Muggeridge in Wax
' Tolstoy was like the whole of creation - he contained everything ... And we can't expect these truly sublime minds to conform to a pattern of logic. We can't expect to find in them the sort of consistency we might look for in a lesser mind ..."
' It quite often happens that people will say to me " I saw you on the telly on Saturday night", and I say " But I wasn't on the telly on Saturday night ", and of course it turns out to be Yarwood! And this appreciation of him being me is Much greater than their appreciation, such as it is, of me attempting to be myself....'
' Without a God, men have to be gods themselves, and fabricate their own immortality - as here, in wax, in Madame Tussaud's exhibition....'
Film cameraman John McGlashan
Sound recordist Richard Boulter
Film editor David Lee
Producer Jonathan Stedall
(Malcolm Muggeridge talks about 'Timon of Athens' in Shakespeare in Perspective on Friday at 8.0 pm)
Book (same title), £8.95, from bookshops