“John Stirling’s performance was amazing and delightful. Completely unexpected, original and a very entertaining and amusing after dinner speaker.”

Prologue

I was born in a hamper in between my mother’s scenes for her latest film “A Candlelight in Algeria” with James Mason and, while my father was waste deep drowning in a man made ice cold water tank, clinging to a life raft in Ealing studios filming “The Cruel Sea” with Jack Hawkings and Co. With all this going on I was more of a hindrance than a joyful arrival!