In the 100 years since his death in 1902 Samuel Butler has become a livelier and more influential figure in British culture than he was even in his own day. Both The Way of All Flesh and his great satire
Erewhon have been continually in print, inspiringgenerations of radicals from Shaw to HG Wells, George Orwell and Anthony Burgess. Kevin Jackson explores the life of Butler: novelist, artist, photographer, satirist, philosopher and Cultural theorist. Producer Fiona McLean