Hilary Hook

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Colonel Hilary Hook was a soldier in armies of the British Empire in India and later in Africa. He was educated at Canford School, Dorset, and became famous with the British public in the 1980s after a BBC documentary directed by Molly Dineen portrayed him as having led a full life of adventure in the colonies, before coming home to a UK which had changed out of all recognition to the one he remembered. The documentary was based on his book Home from the Hill, and deals with the themes of colonialism, international development and the end of the British Empire- in particular, through his alienation from the modern world having lived all his life in a vastly different culture.

Molly Dineen's CV, with details of Home from the Hill documentary