...the name given to him by his contemporaries.
"Does anyone live only on his own death, on pain and on suffering as I do?
To break the marble spell
Is all the hand that serves the brain can do"

Tonight's film about Michelangelo (1475-1564), painter, sculptor, architect, and poet, is largely made up of his own words spoken by Patrick Wymark and the opinions of his contemporaries spoken by Raymond Huntley, Cyril Luckham, Kenneth Farrington, Prunella Scales.
Written and adapted by Christopher Burstall.