But what Melita exactly did is up for debate ... Her mother still remained part of the Left-wing political scene, influencing young Norwood who then joined the CPGB. Norwood joined Southampton ...

Melita Norwood was a woman in her eighties who had ... him because of his lack of professionalism”. In the film, the young Red Joan, played by Kingsman actress Sophie Cookson, is seduced by ...

On a nice morning in Kent, that old witch Melita Norwood put her head round the door and said sure she had spied for Russia, and for 40 years at least. Given them plenty of nuclear secrets to help ...

The real Melita Norwood, known as 'Hola' by the Russians ... Dame Judi Dench stars as Joan Stanley with Sophie Cookson as young Joan Stanley.

Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, unmasked as the KGB’s longest-serving British spy in 1999, at age eighty-seven, Red Joan centres on the deeply conflicted life of a young physicist ...

Melita Norwood, who died on June 2 aged 93, caused a brief flurry of excitement in 1999 when it was revealed that not only had she spied for the Russians for four decades, but that the authorities ...

Standing in her suburban front garden in 87-year-old pensioner Melita Norwood read from a crisp sheet of paper, intently looking down the lens of a camera as she confessed to bein ...