Paper Trail

by John Timpson, David Thorpe

When young Charles Benson arrives in Toftham, a sleepy Norfolk market town, on a miserable Sunday afternoon in January 1952, he has only the vaguest idea what Fate has in store for him. It is at the hands of the editor of the Toftham and Wettleford Journal, Mr Juby, that Charles is introduced to local reporting and Norfolk ways. Charles finds himself steering a perilous course through a minefield of WI meetings, funerals, fetes, local dramatics, council shenanigans and point-to-points, floundering his way through a succession of debacles on his way to becoming a real journalist...and a real man of Norfolk.

10 pages, Audio CD

First published April 1, 2014

About the author

John Harry Robert Timpson OBE was a British journalist, best known as a radio presenter.

His experiences in broadcasting provided Timpson with material for several books: "Today and Yesterday" (1976), "The Lighter Side of Today" (1983) and "The Early Morning Book" (1986). After his retirement from the BBC he returned to Norfolk and continued writing, especially about England and East Anglia in particular. These included a novel "Paper Trail" published in 1989 and two works on the quirks and oddities of English life - "Timpson's England" (1987) and "Timpson's Towns" (1989). Subsequent books included "Timpson’s English Villages" (1992), "Timpson’s Other England (1993)", "Timpson’s English Country Inns" (1995) and "Timpson on the Verge" (2002).

In 1987 he was awarded an OBE for his services to broadcasting.

Reviews

[richard simpson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book, it’s a gentle trip through the life of a young reporter in fifties norfolk, it’s I guess semi autobiographical as the author one time bbc news reporter John timpson started his career in Norfolk in the fifties, this would make the most gorgeous Sunday night tv drama. Any takers?