Christopher Lee Author, Editor & Illustrator

Christopher Lee (born 1941) was BBC correspondent in Moscow and covered defence and foreign affairs prior to becoming the first Quatercentenary Fellow in Contemporary History and Gomes Lecturer in Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It was there that he began writing his history of Britain, which became the award-winning Radio 4 series This Sceptred Isle. His political drama series for radio, The House, ran for six years. His other books include the three volumes of This Sceptred Isle, 1603, Nelson and Napoleon, and Eight Bells and Top Masts. He edited Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples for its one-volume edition.