Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56551 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-05-24
• Format: NTSC

Customer Reviews

Muggers Holds Forth
I have the VHS version of this DVD, which was originally a European television show, and was also released in large, picture book format as A Twentieth Century Testimony. There is a lyrical part where Mugg is in a graveyard musing on death, another where he contemplates his own waxwork at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. Very good bits where he walks through the places the Bible events took place at, in the desert and by the Sea of Galilee. Also shows Malcolm and Kitty at home on their farm, Kitty reading Newman aloud, and Malcolm at the typewriter in his study.

Those not familiar with Muggeridge or his writing are invited to meet him in his autobiography, The Chronicles of Wasted Time, recently republished by Regent College in a one volume edition including both The Green Stick and The Infernal Grove, along with the very brief fragment of the unfinished third volume, The Right Eye. Published in cooperation with The Malcolm Muggeridge Society in London, this edition also includes a brief introduction by Dr. Ian Hunter, author of his own lively bio. on Mugg. Having dipped into that engrossing volume, this DVD rounds out the picture of Mugg, or vice versa for those sampling the DVD first.

A sobering, even chilling talk
Mr. Muggeridge recorded this in around 1973, when he was around 75. He reflected on how we all think throughout our lives, and how our perceptions of life and ourselves gradually change, especially toward our own mortality. He talked of his own views toward death, and how he had accepted his own approaching death, while discussing his religious beliefs. You will dream about him and what he said, for a while after looking at the video