Tag Archives: Robert Donat

Stevenson, a British soldier fluent in Rumanian and German, goes undercover to sabotage a German poison-gas factory. Read More »

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. Read More »

Robert and Catherine have a quiet little marriage until WWII separates them for three years. Read More »

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider Read More »

All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Read More »

In Edwardian England, a thirteen year-old cadet, Ronnie Winslow, is expelled from the naval academy at Osborne for stealing a seven shilling postal order. Read More »

An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils Read More »

Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of “Mr Memory”‘s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. Read More »

Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town Read More »

William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister England has ever known Read More »