Godfrey's Ghost: From Father to Son - Nicolas Ridley

‘Godfrey’s Ghost’ is part biography, part memoir. As the author explains in his Prologue, it is a book written about his father Arnold mainly with his own young son in mind. Arnold Ridley (1896-1984) was well known before the Second World War as the dramatist and author of ‘Ghost Train’, though there were other less successful plays. As an actor he had a late flowering on TV in the late 1960s and 1970s as Private Godfrey, the oldest platoon member of the Home Guard in ‘Dad’s Army’. In his last years he wrote his memoirs, ‘The Train and other Ghosts’. As Nicolas admits, the manuscript sadly ran ... more