Robert Graves Interviewed By Malcom Muggeridge 1965

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  • @curtneilson5502
    @curtneilson5502 3 роки тому +39

    RG seems like one of the few people who can say to nearly anyone, "I've forgotten more than you've ever learned."

    • @christopher9727
      @christopher9727 10 місяців тому

      Jesus Christ saves
      He had mercy on me he can save all who all seek him today He made away through calvery repent of all sins today
      Romans 6:23
      For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
      Come to Jesus Christ today
      Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
      Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
      Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
      Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
      Holy Spirit can give you peace purpose and joy and his will today
      John 3:16-21
      16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
      Mark 1.15
      15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
      2 Peter 3:9
      The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
      Hebrews 11:6
      6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
      Jesus

  • @DanShepherd72
    @DanShepherd72 3 роки тому +36

    I remember him as a child but by that time he was already too old to be very communicative, I knew his sons and his grandson is my mothers god son as we also lived in Deia (Mallorca). Only now have I taken time to find out more about him. What an inspiring and wise character he was. Love this interview, thanks for sharing!

    • @behelton
      @behelton  3 роки тому +9

      That's really awesome! Thanks for sharing your connection with Graves. He was a fascinating man!

    • @DanShepherd72
      @DanShepherd72 3 роки тому +7

      @@behelton yes after Robert Graves, many artist, writers, musicians and so on moved there, my father was one such artist (painter)

  • @magickriver
    @magickriver Рік тому +17

    The luminous soul that was Robert Graves shines through brilliantly, shedding unflattering light on that obsequious & slimy reptile posing as Malcolm Muggeridge.

  • @cjcheetham3367
    @cjcheetham3367 5 років тому +32

    I have so much respect for both of these men.
    It is incredibly amusing to watch Graves correct Muggeridge over and over again

  • @tomokra
    @tomokra 3 роки тому +14

    There is a kind of crazy last man of the passing era versus first man of the next era vibe about this ...

  • @facfortiaetpatere4287
    @facfortiaetpatere4287 4 роки тому +96

    You get the feeling that even when completely sloshed and with the lingering effects of shellshock and longterm alcoholism that Graves could still run rings around the brightest of them with his phenomenal and mischievious intelligence and wit

    • @harrysecombegroupie
      @harrysecombegroupie 3 роки тому +7

      Imagine him firing on all cylinders!

    • @antismokingleague3188
      @antismokingleague3188 Рік тому

      Muggerage put to bed with a homonym @ 10:50mins..

    • @spanglestein66
      @spanglestein66 Рік тому

      Spot on , old boy ❤

    • @bubstacrini8851
      @bubstacrini8851 Рік тому +1

      Muggeridge is certainly not the brightest of them, and his wine has not aged well. He did provide a certain parochial counterpoint to Graves pantheism .

    • @milosilva6165
      @milosilva6165 10 місяців тому +2

      Exactement! Graves is dignified and lucid while Muggerige is snivelling and arrogant. Delicious!

  • @edwardblaire5101
    @edwardblaire5101 3 роки тому +14

    Quite the duel, all elegance , all grievous Graves, Scotched sloshed and all Lol, gave Sir Muggeridge a nice Tutelage. 10:43 "Women don't beget." Ouch "...She bore me, and never bored me."

  • @brucepackard2729
    @brucepackard2729 3 роки тому +9

    Thank you so much for posting this. Love the story about the only reason he wrote 'I, Claudius' was because he was let down in a land deal and needed the money or he would lose his house.

  • @paulyandle6081
    @paulyandle6081 Рік тому +4

    The most amazing countenence... of a man who has lived life on his own terms.

  • @ryangarritty9761
    @ryangarritty9761 4 роки тому +13

    For god's sake, somebody give the man a light.

  • @StevenParrisWard
    @StevenParrisWard Рік тому +1

    This is a great interview. Thank you.

  • @handyalley2350
    @handyalley2350 4 роки тому +8

    I love this person

  • @ks.tuor369
    @ks.tuor369 2 місяці тому

    Than you for this video!

  • @stephaniebarron52
    @stephaniebarron52 4 роки тому +8

    I'd would have loved to hear a discussion between Graves and Herbert Read.

  • @robcoffey8871
    @robcoffey8871 Рік тому +8

    what an inspirational and wise man

  • @WoodwoseTransmissions
    @WoodwoseTransmissions 5 років тому +8

    Absolutely fascinating interview. A most brilliant man, very witty. Just finished the latest Moorcroft bio, highly recommended if you haven't read it. Cheers for posting.

    • @behelton
      @behelton  5 років тому +5

      Thanks for the recommendation. I have read Miranda Seymour's bio but I'll definitely to the Moorcraft on my to read list. I'm currently working my way through Graves' Complete Poems and his Greek Myths. He's one of my all time favorite writers.

    • @WoodwoseTransmissions
      @WoodwoseTransmissions 5 років тому +2

      @@behelton Tell me about it! I've done Goodbye, Moorcroft's Bio, Claudius and complete Short Stories so far. Glad to have so much more to read. Cheers again!

  • @gart1456
    @gart1456 2 роки тому +6

    this man spent years battling against one of the most ferocious enemies in human history; Laura Riding.

    • @behelton
      @behelton  2 роки тому +5

      I've read nearly everything by and about Graves and I can't help but disliking Riding quite intensely.

    • @behelton
      @behelton  2 роки тому +2

      I still can't fathom that he gave up his children for her.

  • @usandthem6748
    @usandthem6748 3 роки тому +34

    Graves is really suffering through this interview, and so am I.

    • @malcolmboyd3503
      @malcolmboyd3503 2 роки тому +10

      Me too. If I were him, I would also not have liked Mr. Muggeridge very much.

    • @aacmove
      @aacmove 2 роки тому

      @@malcolmboyd3503 The very epitome of a middle-class English ass! The way he spat out the words Irish and German as though they were burning his tongue.

  • @ToniChildsshiningstar
    @ToniChildsshiningstar 5 років тому +2

    I love this

  • @rerite2
    @rerite2 4 роки тому +22

    Just to survive WWI trenches: big respect for RG.

  • @jameshagan558
    @jameshagan558 3 роки тому +13

    my God,he was a handsome man.

  • @Kid_Ikaris
    @Kid_Ikaris 11 місяців тому +2

    "we're heading for a crash we all know that..." ~ 1965

  • @melissaminder5534
    @melissaminder5534 10 місяців тому +1

    After watching this, I am now a certified intellectual. 😊

  • @duncansunrise
    @duncansunrise Рік тому +11

    "What a tremendous lot of words you've written," says Muggeridge.
    "Many of them the same, of course," replies Graves.
    A very enjoyable and interesting discussion, especially when Graves talks about the end of patriarchy, to be replaced by mechanarchy (machines), and then the huge crash that's coming, possibly around 2036.

    • @NFZ138
      @NFZ138 7 місяців тому

      2040

  • @charliecroker6445
    @charliecroker6445 Рік тому +1

    Ive only read Goodbye to all that , but probaly 10 times , a story of a bygone era , the classism really gets my goat ,amazing that we won ww1

  • @paulrummery6905
    @paulrummery6905 9 місяців тому +2

    Geez Muggeridge is a pompous, painful bastard. Robert is just suffering him with generous grace.

  • @treyblake1
    @treyblake1 2 роки тому +3

    " Ofcourse it's mystical "

  • @NFZ138
    @NFZ138 7 місяців тому

    Melancholy, what a wonderful word!

  • @AquariusGate
    @AquariusGate 23 дні тому

    What an eccentrically genial conversation! I enjoyed researching TE Lawrence. I would say there is a great distinction between a fantasist and a dreamer. Lawrence of Arabia reveals the difference here i think.

  • @Backwardlooking
    @Backwardlooking Рік тому +2

    Before his health and memory problems. Quite different to later interviews.

  • @dexblue
    @dexblue 2 роки тому +8

    So this is what English is supposed to sound like...

  • @hippopond1
    @hippopond1 Рік тому +4

    “If you have boys and girls together you don’t have homosexuality”. Graves would be pilloried for that today.

    • @farerolobos9382
      @farerolobos9382 Рік тому +2

      But he was closer to the truth then than most of the so-called experts now.

  • @elfboy29
    @elfboy29 5 років тому +18

    Stop talking rubbish Muggeridge and let me talk

  • @malcolmboyd3503
    @malcolmboyd3503 2 роки тому +3

    Mr. Muggeridge was so dominant in the interview, unfortunately, that one could not see much of Mr. Graves.

  • @anodyne57
    @anodyne57 5 років тому +15

    Muggeridge starts off, as in his L. Durrell interview, with the "racial" thing.
    At least he's consistent.

    • @behelton
      @behelton  5 років тому +18

      It's hilarious when Graves tells him to drop it and talk about something else!

    • @irenbotos8632
      @irenbotos8632 4 роки тому +1

      lol

    • @farerolobos9382
      @farerolobos9382 Рік тому +1

      He also has this fixation with homosexuality.

    • @CosmicHyperborean
      @CosmicHyperborean 2 місяці тому

      @@behelton, he wasn’t wrong.

  • @stephaniebarron52
    @stephaniebarron52 Рік тому +4

    Merlin in the flesh.

  • @MrDavey2010
    @MrDavey2010 3 роки тому +7

    Muggeridge is very conflicted. He was a slime ball in real life apparently yet presented himself on screen as a sanctimonious Christian.

    • @pjom4191
      @pjom4191 3 роки тому +5

      How was he a slimeball?

    • @dominique2693
      @dominique2693 2 роки тому +3

      @@pjom4191 He seems insufferably pleased with himself.

    • @michaelm6948
      @michaelm6948 Рік тому +2

      Muggeridge didn't present himself publicly, as a Christian, until he started moving away from his broadcasting career, starting around 1968. Before that he was often considered an agnostic, or even atheistic, which he never was, but he valued skepticism in regard to power and institutions. Privately he had always hoped to find spiritual insight. He knew his private life was a scandalous one and didn't identify as a Christian until he gave up his several vices. He actually was quite self aware, and recognized his extreme egotism as the barrier to gaining spiritual insight.

  • @cappy2282
    @cappy2282 3 роки тому +2

    Graves was a beast

  • @alanbrown4451
    @alanbrown4451 4 роки тому +1

    Unique

  • @johnwightman7549
    @johnwightman7549 Рік тому +3

    almost no-one knew in 1965 that the feminine principle would become dominant. Graves somehow knew.

    • @herewardthewake2636
      @herewardthewake2636 7 місяців тому

      NO. It's the poison - feminism - which has dominated (and which, incidentally, gave birth to transgenderism).

  • @basilthrush3537
    @basilthrush3537 Рік тому +3

    Most beautiful face and high cheekbones. Graves, I mean, not St Muggeridge

  • @c.s.hayden3022
    @c.s.hayden3022 3 роки тому +7

    I’ve always seen “The White Goddess” as a feminine counterpoint to “The Golden Bough”, though “The Golden Bough” is more solid scholarship. “The White Goddess” works far better as a creative vision based on history than a straight historical study. I feel like a change in frame would have averted most of the flak he got for it.

    • @DaveSCameron
      @DaveSCameron 3 роки тому +1

      That tome was gifted to us in the early 1980`s by our English teacher in Birkenhead, magic inside it!

    • @paulhease1007
      @paulhease1007 Рік тому +1

      please be quiet....

  • @farawayeye8423
    @farawayeye8423 Рік тому +1

    I find Muggeridge amusing. Graves marvelous of course

  • @samteedum
    @samteedum 4 роки тому +3

    5:28 poetry
    22:22 replacement of both matriarchy and patriarchy

  • @hippopond1
    @hippopond1 Рік тому +1

    7:39 on Religion. Very interesting question on Christianity. “We are living in a transitional age…trying to separate the Jewish side from the heathen side…[of Christianity]”.

  • @tiamatxvxianash9202
    @tiamatxvxianash9202 Рік тому +4

    To say that this is a dialogue between giants is a understatement. Along with their ancient contemporaries like Plato and Socrates, these gentleman have left us and our descendants so much to eternally cherish.

    • @caoimhinomurchu1843
      @caoimhinomurchu1843 Рік тому +7

      The inebriated Graves toys around with the pompous fart, Muggeridge, who repeatedly misunderstands and misascribes what Graves is telling him

  • @paulhease1007
    @paulhease1007 Рік тому +3

    As much as I like Muggeridge, I really feel for Graves here--he is so bored by the mundaneness of the questioning and the lack of personal feeling evinced by the style of interviewing which was so prevalent back then.

  • @marycahill546
    @marycahill546 8 місяців тому

    2 very interesting men.

  • @hhhsf4357
    @hhhsf4357 Рік тому +1

    Bet the irish love these two

  • @richardabbot8724
    @richardabbot8724 2 роки тому +2

    They don’t make em like that anymore.

  • @lastfreegeneration984
    @lastfreegeneration984 3 роки тому +3

    he mentioning muhammed wasn't just a joke. muhammed claimed to be writing down what the angel told him. sounds a bit like how graves describes writing poetry

  • @ABC_DEF
    @ABC_DEF 2 роки тому +13

    Muggeridge is an absolutely terrible interviewer. Pompous and smug. Graves is clearly irritated by him, as anyone would be. I guess the reason Graves didn't walk out is because he was being paid. What a waste of an interview.

    • @christopher9727
      @christopher9727 10 місяців тому

      Only Jesus Christ blood can cleanse us of are sins come to Jesus Christ today
      Romans 6:23
      For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
      Come to Jesus Christ today
      Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
      Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void.
      The Holy Spirit can lead you guide and confort you through it all
      Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
      Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
      John 3:16-21
      16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
      Mark 1.15
      15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
      2 Peter 3:9
      The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
      Hebrews 11:6
      6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
      Jesus

    • @stuartgoodall7258
      @stuartgoodall7258 8 місяців тому

      It is of its time. RG is forthcoming compared to the 1975 interview.

  • @blackrebelradio9879
    @blackrebelradio9879 2 роки тому +1

    Cabbage moth lands on the large pumpkin, the bee lands on the cabbage moth. 3

  • @AquariusGate
    @AquariusGate 23 дні тому

    9:54 i think judaism and Christianity are not only complatible. The two aspects of man's mythology can represent a greater whole. A divine marriage between feminine Judaism and Masculine Christianity.

  • @khadijasameirmhwsaltaee3258
    @khadijasameirmhwsaltaee3258 3 роки тому

    Can I have this statement?

  • @garypowell1540
    @garypowell1540 Рік тому +6

    Interesting that Graves identifies a trend against marriage as early as 1965. No one could rationally disagree that this trend has continued. However, it could also be said that marriage has remained remarkably resilient in spite of the powerful enemies that have been ranged against it for so long. Why is this? IMO This is because women still retain the need for security when planning to have children, it is men who see little benefit once they have tasted the milk. Men in most cases agree to become married because they eventually run out of reasons to refuse or are more simply bullied into it. If the man can last out the first 20 years of his sentence he may start to see that married life is not so awful after all, especially if he makes the best out of being a father.

  • @WintersWar
    @WintersWar 2 роки тому +2

    2036 hasn't arrived yet.

  • @brushbros
    @brushbros 4 роки тому +4

    You get the feeling that even when completely sloshed and with the lingering effects of shell-shock and long term alcoholism that Graves could still be so utterly full of himself.

  • @NFZ138
    @NFZ138 7 місяців тому +1

    2036 is no joke!
    2040 is dead on.

  • @basilthrush3537
    @basilthrush3537 Рік тому +3

    Muggeridge probes Graves’ infatuation with ‘Dick’ at Charterhouse. Rather cheap really

  • @WeeGrahamsaccount
    @WeeGrahamsaccount Рік тому +5

    Malcolm Muggeridge is annoying and gets in the way of Robert Graves talking.

  • @pietypietduhpiouspoet6408
    @pietypietduhpiouspoet6408 Рік тому

    Peter Sloterdijk says that the only way 'out' [metastationarywise] for religiosity is transmorongrelization to immunologishtickiness

  • @marclayne9261
    @marclayne9261 2 роки тому

    St Mugg......just ordered, 'Chronicles of Wasted Time'....

  • @TheNoblot
    @TheNoblot 3 роки тому

    well "the house of names " 😉🍾🍾🍾🍷🍯🍮🍦 all for the Brent Petrol 🤔Shell would say * la Maison des nom / the house of names : artistically 🤗🎨🖼🎭🎪☕ you got a shell of names 🎶🎵 😥

  • @geraldmellon740
    @geraldmellon740 3 роки тому +5

    His intelligence is scary in its depth... Or is that just me?

  • @catalanopening
    @catalanopening 3 роки тому +2

    More Muggeridge please!

    • @paulhease1007
      @paulhease1007 Рік тому +2

      God no, not in this format...... his writing yes.

    • @catalanopening
      @catalanopening Рік тому

      @@paulhease1007 You're a hard marker!

  • @dominique2693
    @dominique2693 2 роки тому +2

    What I find quite shocking about this is the sense of a kind of elitist clan in which philosophy is very much in the hands of an intellectual group who consider themselves so elevated that the most idiotic answer is taken as delightfully eccentric or too inexplicably profound to be explored.Had I been a pupil at a grammar school with aspirations to go to oxbridge, I would have been deeply intimated watching this nonsense.

    • @behelton
      @behelton  2 роки тому +6

      I imagine that your response is strongly influenced by your personal context. I'm assuming you're British and have been entrenched in the remnants of your horrible class system and are interpreting the interview through that lens. I'm an American and a high school dropout to boot. I guess that's why your comment perplexes me. We don't have a class system over here just absolute ignorance on every level. Voluntarily reading a single book will get you accused of elitism in this wasteland.

    • @tobiwalker7145
      @tobiwalker7145 2 роки тому

      @@behelton Only by the ignorant and yes, they're on every level, but there are more "books" available now than ever before. Somebody must be reading them.

    • @adude9882
      @adude9882 Рік тому

      Well said. I suppose it's because they were brought up in a world of people who understood that they would grow up to Lord it over both their own people and millions of people around the world. I think it's impossible to imagine that feeling of being on top of the human race. They naturally think the odd profusions of their imagination are the objective viewpoint on things.

  • @MichaelCWBell
    @MichaelCWBell Місяць тому

    I find it difficult to understand Graves’ fairly dismissive attitude to I, Claudius as basically practical i.e. monetary because I find much love in it. Perhaps this is just a mark of those with sheer talent where the modus operandi would never relent to anything less than a certain standard. And then they have to suffer awful interviews like this. I think more truth would have been disclosed with questions from someone with far less ego themselves (to be frank).

  • @ZephaniahL
    @ZephaniahL Рік тому +1

    Is it widely known, or rather blarney, that Her Majesty claims descent from Muhammad?

  • @jsmandrake
    @jsmandrake Рік тому +5

    now i know why Muggeridge is infamous.
    unbearable

  • @davidsharpness9990
    @davidsharpness9990 2 роки тому +2

    Welp, it begins with pedigree, and ends with melancholy...mechenarchy?...what the hell...Graves always "a step ahead"...hope you find this C....much fun...🐡

  • @justsaying9483
    @justsaying9483 3 роки тому

    But he sounds as English as can be

  • @philwheatley1519
    @philwheatley1519 3 роки тому +6

    Muggeridge is a non magical interviewer

  • @antheaferguson9153
    @antheaferguson9153 5 років тому +11

    Muggeridge comes across as a bit of an oaf, but Graves is often quite wise. Both of them are terribly confused about homosexuality. One forgets when reading what such men have written, and seeing them talking now ,how two terrible wars must have taken a dreadful toll on their psyches. So much violence has an effect on clear thinking.

    • @jamesrobertson9149
      @jamesrobertson9149 4 роки тому +5

      I looked at what is written about Muggeridge and it seems like he was not my kind of man. He would grope women whenever he got them alone, which I do not like. Also he was the most hypocritical kind of socialist. But I don't know why he (or Graves) is confused about homosexuality any more than anyone else of that generation.

    • @Ferda1964
      @Ferda1964 3 роки тому +1

      @Harold Haroldson I understand Grave's thinking about homosexuality well . Homosexuality doesn't have to be much about physical sexuality at all.

    • @Ferda1964
      @Ferda1964 3 роки тому +3

      @Harold Haroldson LOL . That's painfully dark thinking isn't it? Unreleased emotions will surely turn into psychopathic existence or eventually into some type of bitter lonesome insanity . I am convinced isolation of sexes does promote certain homosexual conditions that won't necessarily fall under the umbrella of homosexuality as is understood by today's western cultural standards. I think homosexuality comes in many different colors and shapes just like love , hate or sadness.

  • @fightbacktohealth9625
    @fightbacktohealth9625 10 місяців тому

    Scots...

  • @cjgrace7698
    @cjgrace7698 Рік тому

    Somebody PLEASE tell me the song playing throughout the beginning??

    • @peterskeeter
      @peterskeeter 7 місяців тому

      Antonio Lauro - Vals Venezolano no 3

  • @mickbrilliantfootballeroft327
    @mickbrilliantfootballeroft327 Рік тому +2

    What a lot of silly piffle.. You make yourself as much as any ancestory would do for you.