Shades of Greene

This book collects the eighteen Graham Greene stories which were dramatised by Thames Television as a series by the same name - published in 1975. I have not seen any of these, to my knowledge, but they attracted some well known actors (who are listed at the start of each story), including Sir John Gielgud, Virginia McKenna, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Roy Kinnear, Denholm Elliot (in several) and Koo Stark.

They are a varied collection, some a few pages in length, others, like the excellent Under the Garden significantly longer, but all still short stories. They take place predominantly in the UK, but there are stories in France, in Jamaica, one in Thailand and one in Africa (although exactly where is not divulged - somewhere in Belgian Africa, so perhaps Congo).

I always enjoy GGs writing, and he crafts clever short stories. The only one from this collection that I have read previously is Under the Garden and joining this at 5 stars individually were , A Chance for Mr Lever (which is the one set in Africa), The Blue Film and The Root of all Evil. There were a number of 4 star stories, and a few three star stories, but overall this balances out at 4 stars.