A series of eight films in which Malcolm Muggeridge looks back over his life. 4: 1945-1956
Correspondent in Washington, ' Punch' and' Panorama '
' I used to think of my places of call as Stations of the Cross, pausing at each-White House, State, Commerce, Treasury, Interior-to beat my breast, Mea Culpa - " Give us this day our daily story " - then on to the next....'
'The earliest of all jokes were about sex; and sex is really the most humorous aspect of human life, if you look upon humour - as I do - as an expression of the disparity between human aspiration and human performance ...' 'Panorama used to call itself a Window on the World; but it's always a strange thing to me that these studios have no windows. They're completely and utterly cut off, isolated from the world. I feel they are places of fantasy, not connected with life ... '
Film cameraman JOHN MCGLASHAN Sound recordist RICHARD BOULTER Film editor DAVID LEE
Producer JONATHAN STEDALL