A13 - Paul Crook, 'Learning to Live in China: the story of David and Isabel Crook', Radio 4 UK, 14 February 1994

Component identifier:

File A13

Content Summary:

(Verity Burgmann shared accommodation with the three Crook sons in London in the 1970s after they left China where they had grown up. Their parents visited regularly. David was a Spanish Civil War veteran then KGB operative in China, where he met Isabel who had been born there to Canadian missionary parents. They participated in the Communist Revolution. Isabel is still alive in Beijing aged 105.)

Subjects:

Politics and government
Academic
History

Names:

Burgmann, Verity, FASS, Adjunct Professor of Politics

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