richard baldwyn

‘Ah yes, I remember it well.’
This is a book of adventures written by an eighty-five-year-old and dedicated to his two-year old grandson, containing drama, tragedy, comedy, not to mention history in its most exciting yet moving form. How can one not be enthralled by the extraordinary real life events related here?
From frightening days at boarding school to a somewhat unusual introduction to the RAF;
From the London blitz to a touching incident in an Algiers brothel;
From having one’s bathroom decorated by a great train robber to recording Richard Briers, Freddie Trueman, James Mason, Harold Wilson and the Princess Royal;
From running the London marathon to dining with Bette Davis;
From being rescued by helicopter on the North Devon coast to hilarious stories of life in the theatre, TV and record industry, to spending the night in a cancer ward in Hammersmith Hospital;
From farewells to George VIth and the Queen Mother to knowing and working with John Mills;
From a brief encounter with Winston Churchill to frightening days when Russians invaded Czechoslovakia.
These are but a few of the reminiscences included in these pages. Simply told and because they are not presented in chronological order, the reader is constantly taken by surprise and will surely identify with much that is written in Only Yesterday.