The Two of Us
My Life with John Thaw (Digital download)
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The Two of Us
Narrated by:
Sheila Hancock
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Narrated by:
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Sheila Hancock
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Written by:
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Sheila Hancock
When John Thaw, star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this unique double biography she chronicles their lives – personal and professional, together and apart.
John Thaw was born in Manchester, the son of a lorry driver. When he arrived at RADA on a scholarship he felt an outsider. In fact his timing was perfect: it was the sixties and television was beginning to make its mark. With his roles in Z-Cars and The Sweeney, fame came quickly. But it was John's role as Morse that made him an icon. In 1974 he married Sheila Hancock, with whom he shared a working-class background and a RADA education. Sheila was already the star of the TV series The Rag Trade and went on to become the first woman artistic director at the RSC. Theirs was a sometimes turbulent, always passionate relationship, and in this remarkable book Sheila describes their love – weathering overwork and the pressures of celebrity, drink and cancer – with honesty and piercing intelligence, and evokes two lives lived to the utmost.©2004 Sheila Hancock (P)2005 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Critic Reviews
‘A book of exceptional emotional candour'
‘Wise, witty and at times unbearably moving'
‘Startlingly good ... Hancock is remarkably good at evoking period and place'
‘Her honest, graceful account leaves nothing out - Thaw's alcoholism, his depression, their separation, their love'
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