Zina Rohan - The Small Book
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1915 a young private is marching to be part of a firing
squad. The condemned is a member of his own company. In an
exclusive interview Zina Rohan examines the fall out from
that one incident across a whole century.
July 1915, the Somme. Private Ken Hoskins has been detailed to a
firing squad to execute a deserter from his own company. This
experience so appalls him that when he returns to his native
Lancashire he joins the nascent Communist Party and on his marriage
determines to bring up his children 'in the faith'. His daughter,
Pam, later moves to London to become secretary to Harry Pollitt,
the Party leader.
Summer 1998, London. Ken Hoskins's grandchildren, Margaret and
Roy, look alike but could not be more dissimilar. She is a defence
analyst; he is a celebrated photographer. She still lives in the
King's Cross council flat where they grew up; he occupies a Holland
Park mansion. Yet they are unusually close, kept so by 
dramatic changes in their lives and
the subsequent oddities in their upbringing.
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