Photo: Wheaton College Special Collections

Born in 1903 Malcolm Muggeridge was educated at Selhurst Grammar School and Selwyn College, Cambridge.

He started his career as a university lecturer at the university in Cairo before taking up journalism. As a journalist he worked around the world on the Guardian, Calcutta Statesman, the Evening Standard and the Daily Telegraph, and then in 1953 became editor of Punch where he remained for four years.

His war service record was distinguished: he was awarded both the Legion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre.

In later years he became best known as a broadcaster both on television and radio.

He died in 1990. 2003 is the centenary of his birth.