Penang-born Englishman returns to his birthplace

A young Englishman follows in his parents’ faded footsteps hoping to find some personal connection with the land of his birth.

IN 1956, Brian Baird was a young English teacher and, with a tentative interest in starting a new and exciting life away from the austerity of 1950s Belfast with his new wife, Stella, he answered a newspaper advertisement seeking Education Officers for teaching work abroad.