TIME SHIFT: MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
Wednesday 16 June 2004 7.10pm-8pm; rpt 2.35am-3.25am
There are few more colourful, more controversial, broadcasters than Malcolm Muggeridge. Born a century ago he was destined to live out his life on our television screens. This week's Time Shift tells the story of how the dapper, voluble son of a Croydon clerk became one of TV's genuine originals.
Interviewees including Anthony Howard, Richard Ingrams and Cormac Murphy O'Connor tell the story of Muggeridge's unique journey from Marxist outsider to father of modern satire, to born again evangelist. Dubbed St Mugg by the satirists he continued to broadcast and to divide opinion until his death in 1990. He once said that he wished his motto to be "Only dead fish swim with the stream". He never did.
