the program, richard and he meant so much to film lovers and depending who you speak to and my father would say the great escape is a great film but gandhifilm for me and for you what period of film will you remember him for? >> well, you asked the impossible question because he was the consulate all around. so what is flashing through my mind, well, it is, gandhi for example, obviously, a terrific achievement and ben king's performance is forever on my mind but having started on this i must talk about winston churchill and the deeply moving shadow lands which he directed with flair and this part of commemoration of the beginnings of the first world war was a powerful antiwar film and a few of his marvelous movies and as an actor he could play psycho paths and generals and a leader and sailor and he could play a circus owner, how much more versatile can you get. >> his own life reflected the time, the history that he lived through. he lived through the british declining. he was a child of the second world war. certainly he saw aspects of that and saw the soviet union disintegrating and the world changing around him. do you think that is