Michael Jayston

Michael Jayston narrates this new concept rock album by Ruben Vine.  The album releases today!  More information can be found on the website.

Listen to the Prologue through the youtube video below:  

The changing look of the Michael Jayston fan site:

Top: from 2008-2013

Middle: from 2013-2016

Bottom: 2016- til hopefully a long time from now.

I felt in the mood to change the layout so that the pages are all uniform in design, I wanted the homepage to be more functional, and for the whole website to be responsive so that it will look great on any mobile device.  I hope everyone likes it!

The Petula Clark Story

Start at 42:28

Actors aren’t reckoned to be the best dressers in the world; nor would it seem to bother them.  The good ones have a kind of magnetic quality that overrides clothes and Michael Jayston is like that.

Still never averse to gilding the lily, I asked Jayston (who is appearing in this week’s Armchair Theatre play Competition) to wear the casuals pictured left.  Oh, and I asked him to let me change his hairstyle, with the help of Peter and Leonard of Mayfair.

An easy-going sort of chap, he agreed, although he couldn’t quite see why.

“I’m not fashionable, never have been and can’t say I really want to be,” he explained.

Happily, he ended up wanting to buy the clothes in much the same way he’ll buy a fellow-Thespian’s cast-offs if he likes them, rather than bother with shopping; that morning, he had on David Warner’s shoes.  Jayston was wearing a corduroy jacket, yellow sweater and black trousers (as in the picture, right) The effect was comfy, baggy, lived-in, charming and totally unsmart.  It seemed a shame to change him, that is until we stood back and viewed the end result.  For a chap who is supposed not to follow fashion, he proved surprisingly sharp.  He approved of his new hairstyle, and his new narrow sweater and his new wider trousers.  Of the jazzy, check jacket, buttoned nice and high, he said “This is certainly my kind of outfit: it’s smart and casual and what’s more, very masculine, which is more than you can say for a lot of the gear seen around today.”  He even kept them all on when he left.

Michael Jayston at Big Finish Day 7 - a Doctor Who convention

1970 The Wednesday Play episode Mad Jack.  Starring Michael Jayston as Siegfried Sassoon

1974 episode of BBC Play of the Month - The Importance of Being Earnest

Starring Michael Jayston and Julian Holloway

A couple lovely photos taken by Angelina from the Whoovers evening with Michael Jayston from earlier this year.