World’s End: A Memoir of a Blitz Childhood Audiobook

The book

Best-selling author Donald James grew up in World’s End, Chelsea during the Blitz years. Just on the edge of a fashionable middle class world, his childhood experience was in stark contrast to the privileged, bourgeois lifestyle glimpsed a few hundred yards away. He grew up in stark poverty and depredation, a hard existence yet shot through by the humour and courage of his family and neighbours. This was a now vanished world of grimy factories and generating plants, coal drays, flat caps and boozers, betting shops, dog tracks, ‘Piccadilly girls’, Guinness Trust buildings and bare foot children. World’s End was a melting pot of the working class labourers who flooded to London in the previous century to make their fortunes, and Donald’s family was no exception.

The story tells of the feud between Donald’s two grandmothers that meant that though they only lived a few yards away from each other, for a dozen years they never acknowledge one another avoiding even at Donald’s parent’s wedding, Christmases or birthday celebrations. Yet, though it was hard, Donald’s was a happy childhood until the war came. Donald was eight. The radio carried news of impending war and then the declaration of war, difficult to believe in the Indian summer of the 1939. But soon Donald’s world would be torn apart by school drills with gas masks and evacuation plans, evacuation itself then an uneasy return to London just as the Blitz itself began and the nights were spent in terror as bombs rained down through the Black Out. Then came the night that Donald’s world, did literally end and with it his childhood.

The author

Donald James (aka Donald James Wheal, 1931 to 2008) was the author of the bestselling novels Vadim, Monstrum, The Fortune Teller and The Fall of the Russian Empire as well as non-fiction books such as The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich. He wrote under a number of pseudonyms, notably Thomas Dresden and James Barwick (originally in collaboration with writer Tony Barwick). He also had an extensive career as a scriptwriter on shows such as The Avengers, Space: 1999, ” Joe 90″ The Champions, “The Secret Service” The Persuaders!, The Saint, Department S, UFO, The Protectors, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Adventurer, “Terrahawks” and Mission: Impossible. After spending periods in Ireland and France, he lived in London, and his autobiographical account of life in World War II London, World’s End, was published in 2005. A second volume of his memoirs, titled White City was published in March 2007.

The reader

Michael Jayston (born Michael A. James; 29 October 1935) is an English actor. He attended the Becket Grammar School in West Bridgford. He worked briefly as a trainee accountant at the offices of the National Coal Board before obtaining a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to train as an actor. He made his professional debut, aged 27, in a production of The Amorous Prawn, going on to work on the stage at the Salisbury Repertory, Bristol Old Vic and with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

He enjoyed success as a classical stage actor before becoming well known on British television. Shakespearean roles on TV include Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1968), Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice (1973) and Edmund in King Lear (1975). An early recurring television role was as civil servant Dowling in the final series of boardroom drama The Power Game in 1969.

He was once considered for the part of James Bond and he portrayed the character in a radio adaptation of You Only Live Twice, a decade later in 1990. In 1970 he played Henry Ireton in Cromwell. In 1971, he starred as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in the film Nicholas and Alexandra, then in 1973 took the lead role of Mr Rochester in a BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre opposite Sorcha Cusack. He appeared as Gratiano opposite Laurence Olivier as Shylock in the National Theatre’s film The Merchant of Venice (1974). He made two appearances in the anthology series Thriller in 1974 and in 1975 played Quiller, a spy who never used a gun, in the British TV series of the same name. He appeared as Dornford Yates’ gentleman hero Jonathan Mansel in the 1977 BBC adaptation of She Fell Among Thieves. In 1979 he played Peter Guillam opposite Alec Guinness in the mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

In 1986, Jayston played the role of the Valeyard in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. In the serial The Ultimate Foe, the Valeyard is revealed to be an evil version of the Doctor himself. He later reprised the part of the Valeyard in He Jests at Scars…, an audio play in the Big Finish Productions’ Doctor Who Unbound series. He has been a close friend of Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker since they appeared in Nicholas and Alexandra.

Jayston played Neville Badger in the 1989 television adaptation of David Nobbs’s comedy of manners A Bit of a Do. In 1991, he appeared as Colonel Mustard in the television series Cluedo and a year later made a guest appearance in the Press Gang episode “UnXpected”. Other notable TV appearances include in EastEnders, Coronation Street, Only Fools and Horses, The Darling Buds of May, Tales of the Unexpected, The Bill and most recently played the character of Donald De Souza in Emmerdale.He also was on Holby City.

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