A Voyage Around My Father

THE JOYFUL CELEBRATION OF A TOTALLY INFURIATING ECCENTRIC Successful barrister and keen amateur gardener...Headstrong and totally perverse...Clifford Mortimer banged his head while climbing a tree - and was blinded for life. For the next 20 years he refused to admit anything had changed. His family had to pretend there was nothing wrong with him. Life had to go on, as normal. But life became increasingly complicated - and absurd...This is John Mortimer's warm witty portrait of his father - and the rest of the family - filmed in the places where the events actually occurred. The scintillating dialouge and Laurence Olivier's intensely accurate performance, brilliantly tease out the contradictions in this selfish heroic man. © Thames Television