By Sheila Hancock
While John Thaw, celebrity of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from melanoma in 2002, a country misplaced one in every of its most interesting actors. Sheila Hancock misplaced a loved husband. during this certain double biography she chronicles their lives - own undefined, jointly and aside. John Thaw used to be born in Manchester, the son of a lorry driving force. while he arrived at RADA on a scholarship he felt an intruder. in truth his timing used to be ideal: it was once the sixties and tv was once commencing to make its mark. along with his roles in Z-Cars and The Sweeney, repute got here fast. however it used to be John's function as Morse that made him an icon. In 1974 John married Sheila Hancock, with whom he shared a working-class historical past and a RADA schooling. Sheila used to be already the megastar of the television sequence The Rag alternate and went directly to turn into the 1st lady inventive director on the RSC. Theirs was once a occasionally turbulent, consistently passionate dating, and Sheila describes their love - weathering overwork and the pressures of big name, drink and melanoma - with honesty and piercing intelligence. the 2 people is a extraordinary booklet - a biography of a born actor and a young, frequently heartbreaking memoir of a wedding. filled with perception and bright thoughts, it inspires lives lived to the maximum.
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Down our road were black cylinders that produced a smoke screen, on the waste land behind our garden were a mobile searchlight and an ack-ack gun that split your eardrums. Above in the sky were hundreds of barrage balloons into which the more dimwitted Germans were meant to collide, I suppose. Concrete blocks appeared across the roads confidently intended to stop the German tanks. My sister, mother and I slept every night on bunks in our now completed 6 feet 6 inches by 4 feet 6 inches Anderson shelter, the bangs and shudders not disturbing my sleep at all.
Mass evacuation started. There was the possibility of us going to America, but when Dad heard that the little Princesses were staying put in London he decided so would my sister and I. My father was put on secret work for Vickers and joined the ARP, whilst my mother continued to work at the shop. Business as usual. Even the local police station had a notice saying ‘Stay good. ’ Blackout went up in all the windows and the world went dark. ‘Put that light out,’ shouted my dad in the street. Slogans like ‘Keep it dark.
The Nazis had entered the Rhineland and Austria. In 1938 a deal had been struck by Chamberlain to give them the Sudetenland in return for ‘Peace in our Time’. Chamberlain was a man who, like my parents, had experienced the lunacy of the 1914–18 war, and it is understandable that he tried every trick in the book to appease Hitler. His despairing cry, ‘I am a man of peace to the depths of my soul. Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me’, reveals his anguish. I have a photo of him in stiff collar and cravat, watch-chain draped across his waistcoat, with two sceptical sober suited Englishmen behind him.