Talk:Malcolm Muggeridge

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If someone decides to revert the wiki back so that passage titled Trivia shows up again, please add more to give it context and/or make it relevant to the rest of the wiki. --David3565 08:34, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The following is taken from a separate article titled Muggeridge, which I've changed to a redirect. If anyone wishes to merge this with the current article, it's all yours. Lee M 19:36, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Muggeridge, Malcolm (1903-1990). British writer and television personality. Known for his acerbic wit and skeptical mind, Muggeridge first made a name for his critical reports of Stalin's collectivization program in the early 1930s. His observations of both the ruthlessness of the regime and the gullibility of Stalin's foreign admirers became the theme of his first novel Winter in Moscow (1933).

After World War II, Muggeridge endured a stormy tenure as the editor of Punch but seemed to find his calling as later in the 1950s as a television interviewer. In the 1960s, Muggeridge turned from his agnostic leanings and embraced Christianity, reflected in such works as Jesus Rediscovered (1969). In 1982, he and his wife Kitty formally joined the Roman Catholic church.

- In Stuart Christie's "Granny Made Me An Anarchist", he refers to Muggeridge's sympathy for anarchism (in the early sixties) and the opprobrium Muggeridge recieved after he criticised the Royal Family. Is this worth adding (if correct)?

- Anyone know what this means? "Muggeridge's politics changed as he moved from a socialist, possibly fellow-traveller position, to a right-wing stance that was no less destructive in its criticism, as it was hard to locate in party-political terms." This sentence seems to be saying that both fellow-traveller and right-wing politics are "destructive." That's an assertion that needs clarification/argument that wouldn't belong in an article on Muggeridge. Plus, I have no clue what the rest of the sentence is supposed to mean. Destructive... because it was "hard to locate in party-political terms?" What?

I agree that the word 'destructive' is inappropriate. Perhaps the author means something like 'ascerbic' (and ascerbic due to the nature of Muggeridge, rather than the political viewpoint which he embraced). Also, am I right in thinking he was a participant in the famous television debate with John Cleese and MIchael Palin, along with a luminary in the Anglican church, about whether Monty Python's Life of Brian should be banned? If so, it might be worth adding in, perhaps under a trivia section JRJW January '06

Yes, Muggeridge and the Bishop of Southwark, Mervyn Stockwood (in full fig - purple cassock; large crucifix) "debated" Monty Python's Life of Brian with Cleese and Palin in Friday Night, Saturday Morning, a late-night BBC2 discussion programme hosted by Tim Rice, on 9 November 1979, the day after the film opened in London. They called it "a squalid little film" and "tenth rate", and ended by saying that "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver." Apparently Stockwood was lapooned by Rowan Atkinson on Not the Nine O'Clock News the week after in the sketch, General Synod's Life of Christ. See this. -- ALoan (Talk) 15:54, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Works section

I have deleted the following:

• In Search of C. S. Lewis — the author/editor was Stephen Schofield; see C. S. Lewis. DFH 18:42, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation — the author was Ronald Reagan. Afterwords were by C. Everett Koop and Malcolm Muggeridge. DFH 18:54, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Still to do: Sort the works in order of publication year, (I don't have time right now). DFH 18:57, 15 August 2006 (UTC)