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The communist who wrote Dr Who
PETER FROST remembers Malcolm Hulke, the communist television writer who died 40 years ago
Malcolm Hulke
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by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
MALCOLM HULKE was a successful writer for radio, television and the cinema from the 1950s to the late 1970s.
His work included episodes for Armchair Theatre and The Avengers, and no less than 54 episodes for Doctor Who, broadcast between 1967 and 1974.
He was also a member of the Young Communist League (YCL) and later the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) certainly from 1945 until the mid-1960s and perhaps even up to his death.
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