Tony Aitken has loved a lifestyles and an performing occupation that has taken him from Fifties schooldays to the West finish degree, television, movie, in terms of Radio, puppetry, rock and roll, skiffle, and voiceovers, to a time whilst even if nonetheless operating, he can mirror again through the years, and percentage a few stories right here. under no circumstances a good big name, he nonetheless took half in lots of mythical television and movie productions, from 'Porridge' 'Blackadder' and 'Open All Hours', to 'The is still of the Day' and 'Coronation Street'.
Why 'Heard The Cuckoo...Adjusted Brakes'? In 2013 TA at sixty-seven, he was once ten years older than his father Frank were whilst he died in 1968. within the attic, he stumbled on a set of diaries, written within the years ahead of and through international conflict , 1938-1946. interpreting those diary entries supplied a brand new perception into the guy TA by no means rather knew. 'Heard The Cuckoo...Adjusted Brakes' used to be a pleasant remark Frank Aitken made on April sixteenth 1941.
His diary notes recorded right here inform of the way he handled being separated from his new spouse and baby. Being transported round Africa to the Libyan desolate tract. Spending approximately years within the battles from side to side around the scrubby wastes of North Africa, and eventually one other 12 months struggling with up via Italy into Germany in 1944. for all time he used to be wishing he have been at domestic in Solihull, taking care of his little family members.
Tony Aitken's personal tale from his earliest stories to the beginning of his circle of relatives within the early Eighties, weaves round reflections on his early kinfolk and college existence within the Midlands of britain, to scholar lifestyles on this planet of London within the nineteen sixties, when it comes to instructing, and dealing as a certified actor.
TA's isn't a story of significant glory, or of significant good fortune, yet fairly the real tale of a profession from adolescence to adulthood, when it comes to loves and losses, affects, studies and adventures.