It's Always Friday: Autobiography of a film insurance troubleshooter

Richard Youens decision to give up an interesting job in the wine trade to work in insurance might have seemed a recipe for a safe but boring career. It proved otherwise. Life for Youens had never been dull, but it suddenly became a lot more colourful when he joined a firm which specialised in film insurance. His work took him around the world, from Switzerland to Singapore, involved him in multi-million-dollar claims and bringing him into contact with an array of Hollywood stars, including Sophia Loren, David Niven, Peter O Toole, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen and Richard Harris, as well as directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Coppola and Stanley Donen. It s Always Friday is a light-hearted account of his adventures before, during and after his career in film insurance