{"id":14389,"date":"2024-12-12T11:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T11:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/story\/memoir-author-testimonial-alan-beckett\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T12:47:54","slug":"memoir-author-testimonial-alan-beckett","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/story\/memoir-author-testimonial-alan-beckett\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Beckett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alan Beckett, of Staffordshire, was encouraged by his grandson to share his life story, so he asked him to find someone who could help make it happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That search led Alan to us. He met his project manager and interviewer, and they embarked on a series of conversations that brought his autobiography to life. For Alan, the journey was deeply emotional, with laughter and tears in equal measure, and his finished book became not just a treasured keepsake but a special family heirloom with meaning far beyond the words on its pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"15349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mr-Beckett-2-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15349\" style=\"width:407px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mr-Beckett-2-3.png 900w, https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mr-Beckett-2-3-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mr-Beckett-2-3-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"15347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mr-Beckett-3-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15347\" style=\"width:408px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mr-Beckett-3-1.png 900w, https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mr-Beckett-3-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mr-Beckett-3-1-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Some time later, Alan visited LifeBook Memoirs to share his experience with co-founder Roy Mo\u00ebd, reflecting on what it meant to create his private autobiography with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"LifeBook Author: Alan Beckett Interview\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5-gps1XabRA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We were delighted when Alan invited his project team to lunch to reflect on the support they had given him. Here is the speech that Alan made during the meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Alan Beckett LifeBook Author Thanks The Team\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fL3U97D3SZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan\u2019s LifeBook, entitled\u00a0<em>I Did It My Way<\/em>, was completed in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear Alan Beckett explain how his LifeBook Memoirs project team guided and supported  him every step of the way in achieving his vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15337,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"Memoir Testimonial: Alan Beckett | LifeBook | Memoirs & Autobiographies","_seopress_titles_desc":"Hear Alan Beckett explain how his LifeBook Memoirs project team guided and supported  him every step of the way in achieving his vision.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"content-type":""},"story-category":[234],"class_list":["post-14389","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","story-category-author-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/14389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"story-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifebookmemoirs.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story-category?post=14389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}