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Christopher Serpell (1 July 1910– 3 June 1991) was a journalist and BBC diplomatic correspondent.
Serpell was born in Leeds , England, in 1910.[1] Leeds Grammar School [1] Merton College, Oxford , where he matriculated in 1929.[2]
Serpell began his career as a reporter for the Yorkshire Post [1] The Times [1] [3] If Hitler Comes (first published in 1940 as Loss of Eden ), which imagines a Britain that has ostensibly made peace with Germany but has in effect surrendered.[4]
During World War II , he served in naval intelligence under Ian Fleming .[1] BBC as its Rome correspondent, then Washington correspondent from 1953, and finally diplomatic correspondent, until retirement in 1975.
He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs [5]
He died in 1991 at his home in Barnes , South London.[1]
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^ "Desert Island Discs - Castaway: Christopher Serpell" . iPlayer Radio BBC Online . Retrieved 14 August 2014 .
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a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n . ● P r i v a c y p o l i c y ● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a ● D i s c l a i m e r s ● C o n t a c t W i k i p e d i a ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● D e v e l o p e r s ● S t a t i s t i c s ● C o o k i e s t a t e m e n t ● M o b i l e v i e w
