Film to be made of Times correspondent's wartime heroism

Michael Burn, the former Times foreign correspondent who was imprisoned in Colditz, is to become the subject of a Hollywood film.

The Times will have a starring role in the film, which will be based on Burn’s autobiography, which was published in 2003.

Burn joined the Times in 1936 and, after the war, worked as a foreign correspondent in Vienna, Yugoslavia and Hungary.