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Graham Greene: Sierra Leone
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Throughout his life, Graham Greene travelled far from England, to what he called the world's wild and remote places. The travels allowed him opportunity to spy on behalf of the United Kingdom, in Sierra Leone during the Second World War. Curiously, it was Soviet double agent Kim Philby who recruited Greene to MI6. As a novelist, he wove the colourful characters he met and the exciting places where he lived to the moral fabric of his novels.
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Synopsis: Heart of the Matter is a faithful if somewhat austere adaptation of the same-named novel by Graham Greene. Set in Sierra Leone during WW II, the film stars Trevor Howard as assistant police commissioneRead More
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Throughout his life, Greene was obsessed with travelling far from his native England, to what he called the "wild and remote" places of the world. His travels provided him with opportunities to engage in espionage on behalf of the United Kingdom (in Sierra Leone during the Second World War, for example). Greene had been recruited to MI6 by the notorious double agent Kim Philby. He reworked the colourful and exciting characters and places he encountered into the fabric of his novels.
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