Madly in All Directions

by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

Rhan o hunangofiant Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. Cyhoeddwyd gyntaf ym 1967. First published in 1967, this is Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's "earliest approach to his autobiography".

210 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Lewis John Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, né Thomas, CBE was a Welsh newspaper journalist and radio and television broadcaster. In later life he took the name Vaughan-Thomas after his father.

Reviews

[David Evans · Rating 4 out of 5]

Based on a horse ride across Wales for the BBC in the mid 1960s the “Greatest Living Welshman” of his time takes the opportunity to reflect on his life as a boy in Swansea (he was in school with Dylan Thomas), his years as a war correspondent and his travels around the world for the BBC.
He also has the chance to meet a variety of eccentrics and remote farmers who were just about clinging on to a life that hadn’t changed for 200 years. He was a superb raconteur with an eye for the absurd and a love for Wales which shines brightly throughout the narrative.
His part in saving Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’ is as astonishing as his involvement in liberating the South of France in 1944 is hilarious - his landing raft, stuffed with GIs expecting stiff resistance on the beach, is greeted by the owner of a Riviera hotel with a bottle of champagne and glasses balanced on a tray. Truly from the sublime to the ridiculous.

[P. W. Lapwing · Rating 4 out of 5]

A life time's anecdotes, very much in the welsh raconteur's natural voice.