Sir Henry Birkin's book Full Throttle was a huge success on its publication in 1932. But he didn't write it. In today's Great Read, Gordon Cruickshank speaks to the man who did
Michael Burn is 92, a former Times correspondent, poet and playwright. But when Henry Birkin met him he was a young student who had never written anything. A mere three weeks later, he had. Birkin did everything at 'full throttle'.
"I met Sir Henry down at Syrie Maugham's very smart villa, the Maison Elisa at Le Touquet. I was 19. She had all kinds of people there, mostly from the stage. 'Tim' [Birkin's nickname] would not normally have been a friend of hers — it was not his kind of world — except that there was a great association between the theatre and the turf, which then passed to motor racing...
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