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MALCOLM (Mac) Hulke was a successful writer for television, radio, the cinema and the theatre from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Born in 1924, he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in June 1945, not, as he later wrote to a party official, because he was attracted to its Marxist philosophy, but because “I had just met a lot of Russian POWs in Norway, because the Soviet army had just then rolled back the Germans.”
He appears to have remained a member until the late 1960s, although his relationship with the party hierarchy had its ups and downs.
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