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Red Joan is a film about Melita Norwood, a British scientist who spied for the Soviet Union and helped them develop nuclear weapons. The film stars Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson, and was released in 2019.
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Apr 19, 2019 · True story behind Red Joan - the KGB spy who leaked British secrets for 40 years. Standing in her suburban front garden in 87-year-old pensioner Melita Norwood read from a crisp sheet of paper ...
- Jo-Anne Rowney
Melita Norwood was a British civil servant, Communist Party member and KGB spy who passed state secrets about atomic weapons to the Soviet Union. She is the inspiration for the 2018 film Red Joan, which depicts her life and espionage career.
Apr 23, 2019 · Melita Norwood was a British Communist who stole nuclear secrets from her office and passed them to the KGB for decades. She was exposed in 1999 after a Cambridge historian uncovered her espionage, but she never faced prosecution and died in 2005.
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Apr 28, 2019 · Red Joan is a film about Joan Stanley, a physics student who became a Soviet agent and helped copy the British atom bomb. The film is inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, a Communist Party member who worked as a secretary for the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association.
Apr 18, 2019 · Red Joan is a film based, although highly romanticised, on the true story of spy Melita Norwood who stole British nuclear secrets for the Soviets.
Aug 28, 2019 · Jennie Rooney, the author of Red Joan, a novel inspired by the story of Melitta Norwood, a spy who passed secrets to the KGB, explains her creative choices and the historical context. She also reveals how she used real MI5 documents and why she wanted to explore the nuances of Communism in the 1930s and 40s.
