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la Man' will be closed. Georgi Markov was a Bulgarian playwright and intellectual who would have preferred to be remembered for his literary works than the manner of his passing. Yet at around 6:45 pm on 7 September, 1978 after leaving the offices of the BBC World Service in London he passed a bus stop on Waterloo Bridge and there his fate was sealed by a pin-prick to his leg. When Mr Markov looked around a heavily built man in the bus queue momentarily dropped an umbrella, mumbled a single word 'sorry', then crossed the road to hail a taxi. The writer had defected to the west in 1969 immediately after being told during a preview of his latest play, The Man Who Was I, before the cultural committee of the communist party, that he was 'in trouble'. Once a close friend of the nation's leader, Todor Zhivkov, Mr Markov did not wait to discover the exact nature of the 'trouble' and, that night, packed a small suitcase and drove across the border into Yugoslavia before finally settling in London. In 1975, he began anti-Zhivkov broadcasts on the Bulgarian service of the BBC and when he was refused permission to return to visit his dying father, the tone of his broadcasts became increasingly bitter. The Communist authorities believed it was time that Mr Markov shut up, permanently

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