PRESS RELEASES
Saturday, March 6, 7 PM & 11 PM ET
The History Channel Presents:
MAKING HISTORY WITH ROGER MUDD:
A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN UPDIKE
Tomorrow night, History Channel correspondent Roger Mudd sits down with John Updike, one of America's most revered and brilliant writers. The one-hour program marks the premiere of a new series, Making History with Roger Mudd. The series affords Mr. Mudd, well noted for his probing and thoughtful interviewing style, the opportunity to talk one-on-one with our country's leading scientists, writers, business leaders and artists.
In the first program, Roger spends quality time with John Updike. Updike relates the story of his meteoric climb from humble beginnings in rural Pennsylvania to an extraordinary career spanning 50 years as novelist, essayist, critic and poet. About the process of writing, Updike tells Roger, "What you do is a quiet thing. Nobody begs you to become a writer. Nobody promises you great rewards if you do. And you do it out of a kind of love and a wish to perpetuate yourself --a wish to make something lovely and a wish to get yourself on paper, out of the flux of body cells and aging and death into something that doesn't die quite so soon." Updike's many awards include two Pulitzers and two National Book Critics Circle Awards. Updike has also received two of the nation's highest honors with a National Medal of the Arts and a National Medal for the Humanities.
Making History with Roger Mudd is a production of Docere Digital Studios, Inc. Timothy Smith is the executive producer for Docere and Susan Werbe executive producer for The History Channel. The program's producer is Fae Moore. The program was written by Roger Mudd and Fae Moore.
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