Tell them I'm on my way - Arnold Goodman

In his chosen profession, Lord Goodman has been involved in many landmark legal actions. Trenchant views on all those and on Britain's antiquated legal system are given here. In politics, Lord Goodman played a highly influential role throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He was a confidant of Harold Wilson; he was closely involved with a whole generation of Labour politicians from Nye Bevan to Barbara Castle and George Brown. As Chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association, he played a key role in many dramas with proprietors, government and unions. But this memoir is also an account of a second life, one devoted to the arts. As Chairman of the Arts Council, Lord Goodman oversaw the planning of the National Theatre, the completion of the Hayward Gallery and the long-term future of London's symphony orchestras. Those achievements, and occasional crossed swords, are set down, as are friendships with actors, artists and musicians such as Laurence Olivier, Peter Hall, Sybil Thorndike, Francis Bacon, Bridget Riley and Yehudi Menuhin.