Rattling good yarns, born of an age they still clearly evoke, the thrillers of such writers as Buchan, Dornford Yates and ' Sapper' sold in their millions. Their heroes lived the kind of lives school-boys dreamed of and gave people between the wars a taste for certainty in an uncertain world.
In five programmes Ion Trewin presents a series of portraits of the creators of those clubland heroes-heroes who are still often portrayed in the cinema and on television and were the forerunners of James Bond. 1: John Buchan
Producer JOHN KNIGHT