AJ Cronin

A. J. Cronin was a Scottish doctor and author best known for the novels The Stars Look Down (1935) and The Citadel (1937). His novella Country Doctor was adapted as the popular BBC drama series Dr Finlay's Casebook, which ran from 1962 to 1971 on television and from 1970 to 1978 on radio. In 2001 and 2002, BBC Radio 4 produced new adaptations of the stories, entitled Dr Finlay: The Adventures of a Black Bag and Dr Finlay - Further Adventures of a Black Bag.