A. J. Cronin

...novel , The Citadel '', was filmed in Tredegar, starring Ben Cross. The series was based partly on Cronin's experiences as a doctor in the town, where he had worked for the Tredegar Medical Aid Society in the early 1920s. Just north of...

In this article: Tredegar, Labour Party, A.J. Cronin, Neil Kinnock, Aneurin Bevan, Coal, Newport, Michael Foot, and The Citadel

...starred in the original version of Swept Away ''. In 1971, he appeared in ''E le stelle stanno a guardare, a television adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, The Stars Look Down. In 1976, he starred in Seven Beauties, for which he was...

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...for the immensely popular BBC television and radio series entitled ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook ''. Rosebank Cottage, Cronin's birthplace Cronin was born at Rosebank Cottage in Cardross , Dunbartonshire, the only child of a Protestant mother,...

In this article: The Citadel, Andrew Cruickshank, The Stars Look Down, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, BBC Radio 4, Montreux, Tredegar, and Jupiter Laughs

...missionary to India. The story's narration is by a character who bears a close resemblance to Cronin himself and he refers to the character as Cronin. In the novel, reference is clearly made to his own Alma Mater , St Aloysius' College ,...

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...described as being located where the River Leven joins the Clyde, and is therefore clearly Dumbarton. A.J. Cronin's maternal grandfather was a hatter in Dumbarton. His maternal grandparents owned a pub in Alexandria and his father was a...

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The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It is credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the...

In this article: The Citadel, Coal, Coal dust, Hippocrates, General Medical Council, and Silicosis

Carol Reed's The Stars Look Down stars Michael Redgrave as an idealistic miner's son distracted by the winsome Margaret Lockwood in AJ Cronin's own adaptation of his novel. The rarely seen Blue Scar, directed by Jill Craigie, follows a...

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The Spanish Gardener is a 1950 novel by A. J. Cronin which tells the story of a British diplomat, Harrington Brande, who is posted to Catalonia, Spain after his marriage collapses. The overbearing father becomes jealous of the evolving...

In this article: The Spanish Gardener, Nicholas, and Catalonia, Spain

The Stars Look Down is a 1935 novel by A. J. Cronin which chronicles various injustices in an English coal mining community. A film version was produced in 1939, and television adaptations include both Italian (1971) and British (1974)...

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...the satirical corner, but in his early books as enlightening about the reality of doctoring as anyone. Further back, everyone knows that AJ Cronin was a doctor, as was (though unsuccessfully) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But what about Schiller and...

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