Former BBC DDG Mark Byford is supplementing his pension with a book, coming in November, from Mainstream Publishing. It'll be one of the non-fiction specialists' last titles - the publishers are closing their office in Edinburgh at the end of this year.
Mark's been tracking the story of another Byford, whose name he spotted on the Vietnam war memorial in Washington. According to the blurb Mark's travelled more than 30,000 miles to complete the story of draftee Larry Byford, who died in the summer of 1967, aged 22.
There's another Byford in the book - Mark's father, Lawry (Sir Lawrence Byford to you and me - formerly HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary) - who was drafted in the Second World War. The book will be called A Name On A Wall: Two Men, Two Wars, Two Destinies - billed as "a gripping, true story which focuses on duty, heroism and fate." £16.99 is the forecast price...
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