Robert Kee introduces the third of four tributes to the reporter who died last year. This week, two films. The Codebreakers Message to Moscow
On 24 October 1969 Russian spies Peter and Helen Kroger left London in an exchange deal with the Russians.
Members of the Portland Spy Ring, they were probably the most capable spies ever caught. Had MI5 not been following Gordon Lonsdale , head of the spy ring,
Superintendent Smith of Scotland Yard might never have found the suburban house in Cranley Drive-the centre of the Kroger's communication operation. In 1970 Rene Cutforth investigated the Kroger story. and A Country
Walk Avebury to
Stonehenge Rene took this 25-mile walk through Stone Age, Saxon and Norman England in 1971 revealing his great love of the English countryside.
'This is the kind of country I like best-it's vast, empty and remote -beautifully shaped like a huge piece of sculpture and silent except for the larks and curlews and the wind in the grass.'
Producer The Codebreakers BRUCE NORMAN
Producer A Country Walk DAVID SPIRES
Series compiled by JENNY CROPPER (R)