119 minute running time … the story of Gareth Jones, a Welshman who exposed Stalin’s famine … it was pretty good, I didn’t know the story at all, it’s a good history lesson … only trouble is it ran about 20 minutes too long. Somehow if it could have been tightened up 20 minutes or so, I could recommend it, but as it is I can’t give it a green-go. It was a John Farr reco and I thank him for it.

(Maybe cutting out the bits about how Jones’s reporting inspired Animal Farm?)